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Giuseppe Di Lampedusa – The Leopard – First UK Edition 1960
£225.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘The Leopard’ by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, published by Collins Harvill, London in 1960. A very good copy free from internal inscriptions, toning to the text block. In a very good clipped wrapper without fading to the spine and some wear to the corners and spine tips.
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa is an historical novel set in Sicily during Italy’s Risorgimento. It portrays Prince Fabrizio of Salina, an aristocrat witnessing the decline of his class as political and social change sweeps the island. Through his reflections, Lampedusa explores mortality, tradition and the futility of resisting history. The prince’s nephew Tancredi embraces the new order, embodying survival through adaptation. Richly elegiac, the novel examines decay, transformation and the tension between permanence and change.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘The Leopard’ by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, published by Collins Harvill, London in 1960. A very good copy free from internal inscriptions, toning to the text block. In a very good clipped wrapper without fading to the spine and some wear to the corners and spine tips.
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa is an historical novel set in Sicily during Italy’s Risorgimento. It portrays Prince Fabrizio of Salina, an aristocrat witnessing the decline of his class as political and social change sweeps the island. Through his reflections, Lampedusa explores mortality, tradition and the futility of resisting history. The prince’s nephew Tancredi embraces the new order, embodying survival through adaptation. Richly elegiac, the novel examines decay, transformation and the tension between permanence and change.
