Dante's Inferno. Translations By Twenty Contemporary Poets. Frontispiece by Francesco Clemente. Introduction by James Merrill. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Afterword by Giuseppe Mazzotta
by DANTE
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- first
- Condition
- A handsome book, as new.
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About This Item
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1993. First edition, deluxe issue. Limited to 125 copies signed by each of the translators & with an original etching signed by Francesco Clemente laid in. The translators include Heaney, Strand, Halpern, Kinnell, Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Richard Howard, Stanley Plumly, C. K. Williams, Alfred Corn, Robert Haas, Sharon Olds, & Cynthia Macdonald. The text was set in Monotype Dante & printed letterpress by Michael & Winifred Bixler on Rives heavyweight paper. A handsome book, as new.. CLEMENTE, Francesco.. Small folio, quarter black calf & red silk over boards, slipcase, by Claudia Cohen. A handsome book, as new.
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- Bookseller
- James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 147
- Title
- Dante's Inferno. Translations By Twenty Contemporary Poets. Frontispiece by Francesco Clemente. Introduction by James Merrill. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Afterword by Giuseppe Mazzotta
- Author
- DANTE
- Illustrator
- CLEMENTE, Francesco.
- Book Condition
- New A handsome book, as new.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, deluxe issue. Limited to 125 copies signed by eac
- Publisher
- Ecco Press
- Place of Publication
- Hopewell, NJ
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- ORIGINAL ART, , , , en
- Bookseller catalogs
- POETRY; SIGNED/INSCRIBED; ILLUSTRATED BOOKS;
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James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
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James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
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Deep River, Connecticut
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