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GADDA CARLO EMILIO: La Madonna dei filosofi Firenze, Edizioni di Solaria 1931
GADDA CARLO EMILIO
La Madonna dei filosofi
Firenze, Edizioni di Solaria 1931
In-8 19.7x13.5
Dedicated by the author to the director and playwright Corrado Pavolini, Florence 14 April 1931.
Original edition. Copy in the edition reserved for sale. Paperback intact and slightly detached, inside marginal browning, but overall very fine. First work by what is now
is now considered one of the greatest Italian storytellers of the twentieth century. As usual for the Editions of "Solaria", the book was printed in a numbered edition from 1 to 200 (the first ten copies on fine paper). Ours is the number 24 - "which constitutes the original edition" - as well as an unspecified print run out of series, reserved for sale" (which, however, in the case of Gaddi's debut we acknowledge is of eight hundred copies.