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1955 The Modern Library (Random House), New York Edition

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (translated by Frances Winwar)
The Modern Library (Random House), New York, 1955. Modern library edition.
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What we checked, and where to see itRCB-781907b9de64 · 9 photographs of this copy
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Modern Library reprint edition, not a trade first of the work
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Copyright 1930 Limited Editions Club; copyright 1955 Random House for this Modern Library issue
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Frances Winwar translation
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LCCN 55-5731
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Modern Library running-torchbearer device on cover, spine and title page
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No number line and no 'First Modern Library Edition' statement on copyright verso
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Flaws, each one named
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light soiling and rubbing to tan cloth boards, photo 1 and 2
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rubbing/wear to spine label edges, photo 3
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minor bumping to spine ends, photo 3
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This copy
1955 The Modern Library (Random House), New York Edition

What a true first shows: First in this translation (Winwar): Limited Editions Club, New York, 1930; the Decameron itself far predates; this is the Modern Library reprint copyrighted 1955.

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.