Search Results: Italy from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Slight scuffing to rear board. xi, 213 p. w/end of essay bibliographies, index. A collection of some 8 scholarly essays examining the various impacts Ireland, Britain, and Italy had on each other during these tumultuous years, examining the roles of different factors, such as religion, Ireland's semi-colonial relationship, exiles, and more.

Milan: Sirotti Editore, 1999. Reprint. Cloth. Very good folio-sized (oversized) hardcover in dark brown cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and lower corners of boards with light scuffing to covers. 389 pages. The text of this work on postal markings from the Lombardy-Venetia region is in English, German, Italian, and French. Extra shipping will be charged for this book due to its size.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xii, 329 p. w/footnotes, illus., bibliography, index. An examination of the changing responses British travelers had to various important sites in Italy over 130 years of the grand tour.

New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. First edition. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. x (2) 253 p. w/ endnotes, bibliography, index, very few b&w illus. A study that explores the first national festival of a unified Italy, the symbolic three day Sixth Cententary Festi di Dante in Florence in 1865, and the then competing ideas of Italian nationalism.

Firenze/Florene: Leo S. Olschki, editore, 1999. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Large octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Slight scuffing to covers. Sticker to back cover.vii, 573 p. w/footnotes, bibliographical essay, index. A detailed study of Sonnino and his impact on Italian domestic and international politics, including colonialism, social problems, authoritarianism. and World War 1.

Florence / Firenze: Alinea, 1995. First printing. Oversize Paperback Original. Very good. Quarto (oversize). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Bilingual edition, Italian, English. 216 p. w/ illus., index, chronology, additional pages of plates at end. Section B

Bari, Italy: Giuseppe Laterza & Figli, 1950. First edition. Softcover. Good. Small octavo (smaller than standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of covers. Creasing at spine. Page edges a bit browned, making the book a bit fragile if creased but easily read with no damage. Small chip missing from flyleaf and from last endpaper at top. 182 p.

Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. Later printing. hardover in glossy boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 294 p. w/chapter endnotes, bibliography, index, and a few illus. A study of this powerful centrist liberal Italian politician and Prime Minister that shaped politics there for nearly 20 years.

Trapani, Italy: s.l., 1982. First edition. Trade Paperback Original. Very Good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Slight scuffing and a few small scratches on covers. 177 p. w/ tables, notes. A solid scholarly study of the Italian port of Trapani over 126 years.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Crease to back cover. A few ink marks in bibliography only. xxiii, 403 p. w/illus., footnotes, bibliography, index of name and places. A survey of this group of Italians in a time of change and upheaval.

1917(?).. Pamphlet. Good. Good pamphlet. Wrappers are worn along the edges with some fading along the edges. On back cover of wrapper is a stamp and a yellow string that is attached. Upper edges of pages have not been separated so every two pages are attached at the top. Pages are a bit stiff and little browned but not brittle. Few library pencil notes on endpapers but this is not ex-library. 38 pages with notes. A scarce work in Italian about Dante.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Top corners bumped. A very few marginalia marks in the bibliography ONLY. xv, 431 p. w/a few illus, endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the making of a modern national identity in Italy, using a wide variety of resources.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to the edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. x, 272 p. w/ appendices, endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the role of letters in the early unified Italian state, looking at the nationalization of the post office, education, modernization, politics, and cultural production.

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Missing the dust jacket. neat blue and red underlining and brackets on numerous pages. Name of former owner on flyleaf. ii, 544 p. w/ endnotes, bibliography, index. The clasic English language work on Italian fascism and Mussolini's rise within it.

Leiden: Brill, 2018. First edition. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Slight scuffing to boards. 306 p. w/map, footnotes, bibliogaphy, index. A study of the two political sensibilites of the Risorgimento (1815-1861). moderatism and Mazzii's republicanism.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. ix, 252 p. w/ map, footnotes, bibliography, index. The first in depth study of the unification of Italy's impact on rural Sicily.