Italian Literature In Translation from Berthoff Books

Horace Liveright, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 302 pages. Sixth printing of the 1925 Horace Liveright edition, translated by John Payne with a ~40-page introduction by Sir Walter Raleigh (Oxford U.). Red decorative printing on the title page, illustrated end papers. 8vo, black cloth, moderate shelf wear particularly visible at crown, lettering and decoration on spine is faded,… Read more about this item

Urizen Books, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 88 pages, with Selected Bibliography of Criticism of Eugenio Montale's Works Published in Britain and the United States 1936-1969. Collection of short essays by the 1975 Nobel laureate in literature, first assembled in 1972. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, puce end papers, sharp corners and no… Read more about this item

Carcanet, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 216 pages, with Foreword by author, Introduction by translator. Appendix of translations of Italian passages in the text. Short essays by the 1975 Nobel laureate in literature on a wide array of authors including Dante, Boccaccio, Defoe, Hardy, T.S. Eliot, Auden, Poe, Melville, Dickinson, many others. 8vo, forest green… Read more about this item

Collins and Harvill Press, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 128 pages. Translation of book published in Italian 1961 - memoir and stories by the aristocratic author of The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa. Introduction by E.M. Forster. Illustrated with b&w photos on six double-sided plats. 8vo, blue buckram with gilt lettering on spine, tan end… Read more about this item

Simon and Schuster, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 306 pages, with chronology of when and where the stories were published in Italian (1895-1934), note on bibliography, note on Italian pronunciation. First printing. Introduction by Frances Keene. Stories grouped in four sections: Sicilian Tales, Tales of Humor and Irony, Tales of Frustration, Tales of Anguish and Hope. 8vo, patterned… Read more about this item

Grove Press, 1953. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 226 pages plus 10 pages front-matter. D.H. Lawrence's English translation of these late-19th-century stories was first published 1925. Note by Lawrence on the life and work of Verga serves as a preface. 8vo, gray paper over boards with brown cloth quarter, darker brown lettering on spine, foxing to boards and end papers,… Read more about this item

Harper & Row, 1970. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 207 pages. Translation of historical play published in Italian 1969, set in the 13th century and the biography of Pope Celestine V. Includes 18 pages of historical notes on the Conclave of Perugia, Pope Boniface VIII, and the treatment of Celestine by Dante and Petrarch. 8vo, brown paper over boards with… Read more about this item

Harper & Brothers, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 141 pages. Translation of novella published in Italian in 1960, set amid tensions between Italian fascists and socialists in post-war Switzerland. 8vo, black paper over boards with purple cloth quarter, silver and blue gilt lettering on spine and decoration, blue end papers, rough-cut fore-edge, practically no visible shelf wear, rear… Read more about this item

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 360 pages. First American edition of English translation of Silone's anti-fascist novel, sequel to Bread and Wine and Fontamara. 8vo, black cloth with patterned weave, faded gilt lettering on front board and spine, fore-edge rough-cut, light shelf wear with small hole in cloth at bottom of… Read more about this item

Atheneium Publishers, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 240 pages. First American edition of English translation from Silone's post-war revised version of his famous anti-fascist novel (first published 1933 when he was in exile in Switzerland, issued in English by Penguin Books 1934; revised 1949). Foreword by Malcolm Cowley, Note on the Revision of Fontamara written by Silone 1959.… Read more about this item

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 319 pages. A Story Press Book. First American edition of English translation, done from the Italian of Silone's first version of this anti-fascist novel. Written while Silone was in exile in Switzerland, it was first published in German 1936. 8vo, light green cloth with gilt lettering readable… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, Inc., 1948. Soft cover. Fair. 187 pages. First Penguin Books edition, translation published in hardcover the previous year. Levi's autobiographical work relates to the period of his political exile starting in 1935, for opposing fascism, to a remote village. Mass-market paperback, wraps worn and chipped, outer glassine layer mostly peeled away, a few pages also chipped… Read more about this item

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1958. Soft cover. Very Good. 386 pages. Collection of plays first published in hardback 1952. Edited by Eric Bentley, translations by Bentley, Gerardo Guerrieri, Arthur Livingston, Edward Storer. Mass-market paperback, wraps a little shelf worn and rubbed along spine, patches of foxing to edges, binding tight. Name of former owner written on… Read more about this item

Signet (The New American Library), 1954. Soft cover. Fair. 144 pages. First Signet printing of translation issued by Farrar, Straus and Young in hardback; Italian novel published 1950. Foreword by Paolo Milano. Mass-market paperback, shelf wear, rubbing along spine, edges decoratively stained red, binding loose - text block detached and reglued/taped, brown stains to inside of covers, pages… Read more about this item

Vintage International (Random House), 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 276 pages. Thirty-seven short stories. Trade paperback, light foxing and soil to wraps, creases to corners of front cover, faint foxing to top edge, page margins age-toned, binding tight, pages unmarked.

Pengiun Books, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 215 pages, with bibliography. Edited with an introduction and glossary by T.J.B. Spencer. Elizabethan-era English translations and adaptations of Italian stories, made by William Painter, John Florio and others, and two new translations by the editor. Introduction includes section "Links with Shakespeare's plays." Mass-market paperback, crease to spine and rubbing along… Read more about this item

Columbia University Press, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Tr. from the Italian by William A. Packer, edited by George Saunders. The Italian edition appeared in 1977. 158 pages. Cover 6-1/8" x 9-1/4", cloth bound gray with gold and red lettering on spine. DJ in very good condition with one tiny (3/16") tear and crease at… Read more about this item