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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. 1st Paperback Edition. 381 pp. In 2 Vol./Part 1 (Bollingen Series LXXX) issue only! An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 1st Paperback Edition. 389 pp. In 2 Vol./Part 1 (Bollingen Series LXXX) issue only! Copy in pristine state.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Volume 2. (Commentary) is illustrated w/ 4 plates, 4 figures, & 1 map. (illustratore). 1st Edition. META-CLASSIC: MONUMENTAL: SPLENDID: TRIUMPHANT: INDISPENSABLE: FINE virtually AS-NEW First Edition two-volume hardcover set (Orig. 1973) Second Printing, with corrections (1977): FINE mylar-protected very-slightly-soiled dust-jackets w/ EXCELLENT generally sharp AS-NEW edges & corners but w/ slight chipping at top spine-cap (Volume 1) & neatly back-repaired crinkle-tear at bottom-left of front panel & edge of front-bottom right spine, both volumes w/ FINE library-durable classic-gray linen-over-boards covers w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & w/ titles gilt-stamped on black leather title panels inset on the spines, both volumes w/ IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exteriors remarkably free of shelf-dust soiling, both volumes w/ IMPECCABLE handsome cream-ocher card-stock end-papers, both volumes w/ AS-NEW sewn bindings w/ air-tight signatures & w/ silk-finish ivory cloth banding at spine-caps, both volumes w/ SUPERB interiors beautifully & clearly presenting the texts w/ (Volume 1) Italian verse texts (left) facing English prose translations (right) w/ the Italian texts line-numbered at intervals of "3" to the right & (Volume 2) notes presented in clear sequential one-column-format * VOLUME 1: 5.12" x 8.16" x 0.92", 0.48 kg, viiii+385 (393) pp. VOLUME 2: 5.12" x 8.16" x 2.00", 0.94 kg, xii+852 (864) pp. VOLUMES 1 & 2: 5.12" x 8.16" x 2.92", 1.42 kg, xx+1237 (1257) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOKS: Charles S. Singleton's edition of the "Divine Comedy", of which this is the second part (Purgatorio), provides English-speaking readers w/ everything required to read & understand Dante's great masterpiece. The Italian text here is the edition of Giorgo Petrocchi, the leading Italian editor of Dante. Professor Singleton's lucid prose translations, facing the Italian in a line-for-line arrangement on ea. page, is smooth & literate. The companion volume, the Commentary, marshals every point of information the reader may require: vocabulary; grammar; identification of Dante's characters; historical sources of some of the incidents &, where pertinent, excerpts from those sources in their original languages & in translation; profound & clear analysis of the "Divine Comedy's" basic allegory. There is a complete bibliography of every aspect of Dante studies. Francis Fergusson has written of this edition: "We are very lucky that SIngleton is the great contemporary interpreter of Dante. It is clear that his work . . . supersedes everything else of the kind." * HIGHEST PRAISE for the translation of Professor Charles S. Singleton: "A SPLENDID translation. What TRIUMPHANT JOY it is to see the honest light of literality take over again, after ages of meretricious paraphrase." -Vladimir Nabokov - "With the publication of Singleton's edition of "The Divine Comedy", we have in English a truly SCHOLARLY edition which can at last vie w/ editions in Italian & German. This MONUMENTAL work will be INDISPENSABLE for all lover's of this masterpiece who wish to root it in its linguistic, historical & social reality." -Speculum * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this EXCELLENT copy for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Volume 2. (Commentary) is illustrated w/ 9 plates, 7 figures, & 4 maps. (illustratore). 1st Edition. META-CLASSIC: MONUMENTAL: SPLENDID: TRIUMPHANT: INDISPENSABLE: FINE virtually AS-NEW First Edition two-volume hardcover set (Orig. 1970) Printing Unstated (We believe this to be the First Printing): FINE mylar-protected very-slightly-soiled dust-jackets both price-clipped on the diagonal at inside-front flyleaf & w/ EXCELLENT generally sharp AS-NEW edges & corners but / slight chipping-wear evident at spine-caps, both volumes w/ FINE library-durable classic-gray linen-over-boards covers w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & w/ titles gilt-stamped on black leather title panels inset on the spines, both volumes w/ IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exteriors remarkably free of shelf-dust soiling, both volumes w/ IMPECCABLE handsome cream-ocher card-stock end-papers, both volumes w/ AS-NEW sewn bindings w/ air-tight signatures & w/ silk-finish ivory cloth banding at spine-caps, both volumes w/ SUPERB interiors beautifully & clearly presenting the texts w/ (Volume 1) Italian verse texts (left) facing English prose translations (right) w/ the Italian texts line-numbered at intervals of "3" to the right & (Volume 2) notes presented in clear sequential one-column-format * VOLUME 1: 5.12" x 8.16" x 0.90", 0.48 kg, viii+384 (392) pp. VOLUME 2: 5.12" x 8.16" x 1.62", 0.82 kg, xii+684+ 3 pp folded-end-map (699) pp. VOLUMES 1 & 2: 5.12" x 8.16" x 2.52", 1.30 kg, xx+1068+3 pp * ABOUT THE BOOKS: Charles S. Singleton's edition of the "Divine Comedy", of which this is the first part, provides English-speaking readers w/ everything required to read & understand Dante's great masterpiece. The Italian text here is the edition of Giorgo Petrocchi, the leading Italian editor of Dante. Professor Singleton's lucid prose translations, facing the Italian in a line-for-line arrangement on ea. page, is smooth & literate. The companion volume, the Commentary, marshals every point of information the reader may require: vocabulary; grammar; identification of Dante's characters; historical sources of some of the incidents &, where pertinent, excerpts from those sources in their original languages & in translation; profound & clear analysis of the "Divine Comedy's" basic allegory. There is a complete bibliography of every aspect of Dante studies. Francis Fergusson has written of this edition: "We are very lucky that SIngleton is the great contemporary interpreter of Dante. It is clear that his work . . . supersedes everything else of the kind." * HIGHEST PRAISE for the translation of Professor Charles S. Singleton: "A SPLENDID translation. What TRIUMPHANT JOY it is to see the honest light of literality take over again, after ages of meretricious paraphrase." -Vladimir Nabokov - "With the publication of Singleton's edition of "The Divine Comedy", we have in English a truly SCHOLARLY edition which can at last vie w/ editions in Italian & German. This MONUMENTAL work will be INDISPENSABLE for all lover's of this masterpiece who wish to root it in its linguistic, historical & social reality." -Speculum * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this EXCELLENT copy for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.