[DI LAMPEDUSA, GIUSEPPE]. The Leopard. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1960.
FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Cloth-bound; hardcover with dust jacket; octavo (22 x 14.5 x 3 cm); pp. 255. English text, translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine titles; supplied with the original dust jacket. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square. Covers very well-preserved. Interior clean with brown spotting to page edges. Dust jacket complete with slight shelf wear. Without previous ownership markings. Notes: True first British printing of this classic work, translated from the original Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. Supplied with the original dust jacket, designed by Hans Tisdall; the front inner flap of jacket marked as 'Book Society Choice'. The author of this book was a Sicilian nobleman with the resonant name and titles of Giuseppe Tomasi, Duke of Palma, and Prince of Lampedusa. He lived the life of a man of culture, a literary dilettante. He spent 25 years in contemplation of the book, only to write it in a few short months prior to his death.
