The Child of Pleasure (Likely Modern Library first edition, ML #98.1)

D'ANNUNZIO, Gabriele

Published by The Modern Library / Boni & Liveright, Inc. [c.1925], New York, 1925

About this Item

A Modern Library reprint edition of the first novel by Italy's Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938). The author was a poet, journalist and military leader. Text of the novel rendered into English by Georgina Harding, poetic verses translated by Arthur Symons. With an introduction by Ernest Boyd. --- In Toledano spine #3 / green leatherette ("Croftleather") limp boards / gilt spine titling & horizontal bars / gilt Modern Library-B&L writer-at-desk device to cover / Brodzky illustrated M-L endpapers / lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1925 (the 1925 date which appears in volume makes this a likely first Modern Library edition). ML #98.1. --- A Good-only copy, with dampstains to first 100 or so leaves, age-toning to leaves and creases to covers, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xiii, 311, (11, ads) pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Child of Pleasure (Likely Modern Library first edition, ML #98.1)
• Publisher: The Modern Library / Boni & Liveright, Inc. [c.1925], New York
• Publication Date: 1925
• Binding: Flexible Leatherette
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
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