THE LEOPARD BY GIUSEPPE DI LAMPEDUSA 1960 FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER

THE LEOPARD BY GIUSEPPE DI LAMPEDUSA 1960 FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER

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[DI LAMPEDUSA, GIUSEPPE]. The Leopard. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1960.

First UK edition, first impression. Cloth-bound. Hardcover with dust jacket. Octavo (220 x 145 x 30mm). Pp. 255. English text. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with gilt spine titles. Supplied in the original dust jacket. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square. Covers clean. Interior clean with some spotting to page edges. Dust jacket neatly price-clipped but otherwise excellent. Without previous ownership markings. A very good copy.

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.