MAKES THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY FAN OF CLASSIC ITALIAN LITERATURE / THE ARTWORK OF SALVADOR DALI
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DESCRIPTION: International Collectors Library beautiful leatherette binding, part of the LONG out of print classics of mystery. THIS IS A VINTAGE HEIRLOOM ICL WITH LAVISH GILT IMPRESSIONS TO THE BOARDS AND SPINE with DONE IN REAL 24K GOLD.with VINTAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY SALVADOR DALI. IT IS ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY-PRIZED & MOST EDITIONS OF THIS GREAT CLASSIC YOU CAN FIND. SCARCE COLLECTOR’S NOTES ARE INCLUDED.
The International Collectors Library was a book club series published by Doubleday Book & Music Clubs, Inc. from the late 1940’s through the late 1980’s.
Generally, the books followed the 8-1/2″ x 5-3/4″ book size format. The binding designs were adapted based on old “Golden Age of Bookmaking” bindings, and made to look like leather-bound copies (leatherette). The bindings were embossed with 24K gold embellishments, and some copies had gilt edges (thin layer of gold leaf) applied. A sewn in satin ribbon marker was also added in most books. There were over 400 editions published in a variety of bindings. Some editions came with loose-leaf inserts that described the book club, the bindings and design styles, and a story synopsis of the book-in-hand.
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith - a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer and a braggart, a shameless adventurer who at different times experienced both papal persecution and imprisonment, and the adulation of the royal court. Inn-keepers and prostitutes, kings and cardinals, artists and soldiers rub shoulders in the pages of his notorious autobiography: a vivid portrait of the manners and morals of both the rulers of the day and of their subjects. Written with supreme powers of invective and an irrepressible sense of humour, this is an unrivalled glimpse into the palaces and prisons of the Italy of Michelangelo and the Medici.
CONDITION: Book is in AMAZINGLY LIKE NEW condition for its age (77 YEARS OLD) with only some negligible shelfwear to the boards, an attached blank bookplate, ready for your personalization, and a yellow sticker to the ffel (SEE PICS FOR BETTER DETAILS). NO ATTACHED BOOKPLATES, WRITINGS FROM PREVIOUS OWNER, ETC. It is a SPECTACULAR EDITION.
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