Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, early printing hardcover copy of The Inferno by Robert Pinsky. First Edition stated, 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Fourth Printing 1995, stated. illustrated by Michael Mazur.
The book is in Near Fine condition with spotless, cloth boards, strong title gilt on a straight spine, a few smudges on text blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The illustrated end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, the price intact on the front flap and a small crease on the rear flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
This widely praised version of Dante’s masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Pinsky employs slant rhyme and near rhyme to preserve Dante’s terza rima form without distorting the flow of English idiom. The result is a clear and vigorous translation that is also unique, student-friendly, and faithful to the original: “A brilliant success,” as Bernard Knox wrote in The New York Review of Books.
Large volume ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
