Hardcover. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout with 112 color plates and 55 b&w reproductions. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A catalogue to accompany an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A beautiful publication examining Italian Maiolica. An essential reference work for historians, collectors, and anyone with an interest in ceramics.
Hardcover. Rome, Contrasto, Reprint , 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 134 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. A collection of 53 photographs of Pompeii, never published before, shot by the master photographer Mimmo Jodice. Unique images, visions conjuring up a long-lost past tradition, coupled with texts by Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet and Jay Parini. No dj issued.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Edition, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 580 pages. Hardcover. 24 b/w illustrations throughout including frontispiece with tissue guard and 6 maps (fold out). Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine (slightly faded) and front cover, some moisture damage to front cover, bump to bottom right corner of board. Tanning to pages and edges, pages otherwise unmarked.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 2nd Ed., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 291 pages, b&w illustrations. Records the findings and methodology of archaeologists concerned with the civilizations of ancient Italy. Clean copy.