The Story of My Death
by De Bosis, Lauro; Draper, Ruth (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Poor dust jacket; Corners bumped, jacket chipped, sunned, silverfish-damaged and missing pieces.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Poor dust jacket; Corners bumped, jacket chipped, sunned, . silverfish-damaged and missing pieces.. 1933. Hardcover. Vellum-backed boards. Printed paper label on front boards and spine and a third label bound in at rear. Frontispiece illustration of De Bosis. Biographical note by Ruth Draper, with whom the author shared a relationship. Text in English, though De Bosis' text is reprinted in English, Italian, and French. Laid in the book is a mimeograph of a typed slip stating "Miss Draper had hoped to include this little brochure with Icaro, but owning to an unforseen delay in the printing, this was not possible. Miss Draper hopes that you will not trouble to make further acknowledgment of this book. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS". De Bosis was a translator and poet who died when he was only thirty years old in 1931, killed when his plane crashed while he was dropping anti-Fascist leaflets over Italy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 32 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43417
- Title
- The Story of My Death
- Author
- De Bosis, Lauro; Draper, Ruth (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Poor dust jacket; Corners bumped, jacket chipped, sunned, silverfish-damaged and missing pieces.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1933
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1930s Italy, Fascist Italy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography and Memoir;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Sunned
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