Dante and Milton: The Commedia and Paradise Lost
by SAMUEL, Irene
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth spine with gilt lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. x, 299pp. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature of literature professor and critic John D. Soley (1935-2016), whose graduate thesis was "John Milton's Idea of the 'Right Poet'"; bit of spotting to top and outer page edges. A tight, attractive second printing.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43801
- Title
- Dante and Milton: The Commedia and Paradise Lost
- Author
- SAMUEL, Irene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ithaca
- Date Published
- 1967
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Literary Criticism;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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