Tuscan Spring: A Novel About Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510)
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #008189
Full mustard yellow cloth, gold paper spine label. Top edge yellow. 328 pp. Spine cocked and bumped at ends, bruising to upper corners of boards. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. A few neat pencil annotations to outer margins. Dust jacket is edge worn, small chips to spine ends and corners, tape repairs to spine ends, perforation to front joint. Although this story is described as a novel about Botticelli, it could more properly be called a portrait of an entire age - perhaps the greatest age the world has ever known - the Italian Renaissance.
Price: $100.00
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