[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321). The Divine Comedy… A Verse Translation with Introduction & Commentary by Allen Mandelbaum. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980-84.
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Lot Description
[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321). The Divine Comedy… A Verse Translation with Introduction & Commentary by Allen Mandelbaum. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980-84.
3 volumes. 8vo. Illustrated after drawings by Barry Moser. Original cloth (minor soiling to Vol. I); Vols. II-III in dust jackets.
FIRST EDITIONS illustrated by Moser. SIGNED BY MOSER on title-pages. ANNOTATED BY MOSER IN VOLUME I with underlinings in red, notes and additions to the colophon in preparation for an unrealized Pennyroyal edition.
[With:] A later paperback edition of the Mandelbaum/Moser Inferno, [n.d.], SIGNED BY MOSER on title-page. — 2 exhibition booklets to accompany the exhibitions for “Inferno: Drawings by Barry Moser for the California Dante” at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and Galeriaforma in Genoa in 1980, respectively, each signed by Moser on the title-page, each one of 250 copies printed by the Pennyroyal Press. — 2 illustrated exhibition cards for the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, MA, in 1981, each signed by Moser. — HOMER. The Odyssey of Homer. Tranlsated by T. E. Shaw. Preface by Jeremy M. Wilson. NY: Limited Editions Club, 1981. 8vo, UNBOUND FOLDED SHEETS. LIMITED EDITION, one of 2,000 copies SIGNED BY MOSER AND WILSON. —And another copy in unbound folded sheets.
Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser
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