The Leopard
LAMPEDUSA, Giuseppe di
Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. [First English Edition].
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
Published: Collins and Harvill Press, 1960
Stock code: 51132
Price: £295.00
8vo., First Edition thus; green cloth, gilt back, top lightly dust-marked else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one small loss at top of upper fold-in.
First appearance in English of Lampedusa's only novel ('Il Gattopardo'), with striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Hans Tisdall. The basis of Visconti's feature film (1963) starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.