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Giuseppe Di Lampedusa – The Leopard – First UK Edition 1960
£75.00
A first edition, first printing published by Collins Harvill in 1960. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. The wrapper has not been price clipped, the spine has some rubbing, off-setting and an internal stain to the top of the spine. The green cloth boards are free from chips and mark – stain to the front and rear endpapers. The book is free from foxing and previous owner’s ink and is generally a very good copy. The book chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento. Published posthumously in 1958 by Feltrinelli, after two rejections by the leading Italian publishing houses Mondadori and Einaudi, it became the top-selling novel in Italian history and is considered one of the most important novels in modern Italian literature. In 1959, it won Italy’s highest award for fiction, the Strega Prize. In 2012, The Observer awarded the book as one of the top ten historical novels.
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A first edition, first printing published by Collins Harvill in 1960. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. The wrapper has not been price clipped, the spine has some rubbing, off-setting and an internal stain to the top of the spine. The green cloth boards are free from chips and mark – stain to the front and rear endpapers. The book is free from foxing and previous owner’s ink and is generally a very good copy. The book chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento. Published posthumously in 1958 by Feltrinelli, after two rejections by the leading Italian publishing houses Mondadori and Einaudi, it became the top-selling novel in Italian history and is considered one of the most important novels in modern Italian literature. In 1959, it won Italy’s highest award for fiction, the Strega Prize. In 2012, The Observer awarded the book as one of the top ten historical novels.
