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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Leopard
London, Collins & Harvill Press, 1960.“The Leopard is a little more than a very fine book, it is one of the great novels of this century, one of the great novels of all time... the only Italian novel.” (Aragon)Sold
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Le Guépard
Paris, Éditions du Seuil, (November) 1959.One of 150 deluxe copiesSold
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Le Guépard
Paris, Éditions du Seuil, (November) 1959.The first edition of Il Gattopardo was published in Milan in early November 1958.Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa, Duke of Palma di Montechiaro, had died on 23 July 1957, from a malignant lung tumor detected in April. He therefore never knew of the fate of his novel, whose fame proved as sudden and rapid as…Sold
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Il Gattopardo
Milan, Feltrinelli Editore, (October 25) 1958.The rarest Italian novel of the centurySold
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