Published by The Book Club
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1958
Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First English Edition. Issued by The Book Club.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd., Middlesex, England, 1960
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Scuffing, crease and dust spotting on cover and spine. Second printing of the first Penguin Books edition published the same year, film tie-in edition, the book of the M.G.M. release Where the Hot Wind Blows starring Gina Lollobrigida, Yves Montand, and Pierre Brasseur.
Published by The Book Club, London, 1958
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. Undated book club edition, first published in Britain in 1958. Some dust and foxing marks on the jacket, the end papers and on the closed page edges.
Published by Jonathan Cape and The Book Socie
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Photograph available on request.
Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1958
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and endpapers by David Knight (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some faint grubby fingerprint staining in blue sky of top of jacket, corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (15s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 256pp, illustrated endpapers. The grotesque game of the Law, played in the taverns of Apulia in southern Italy, is but a shadow of an even fiercer attitude to life, a potent metaphor for a vigorously hierarchical view of existence which rules over the 'mezzogiorno', the noonday culture of southern Italy. 'The Law' is a study in the social structure of a small fishing village in Italy in the 1950s. The loosely woven story revolves around three main patriarch figures. Illicit romance, infidelity, class structure, and tradition are all subtexts of the daily life of this post war southern Italian town. Novelist, screen writer, war hero and disillusioned French communist Roger Vailland (1907-65), captures the chaotic personal dramas unfolding against the sleepy backdrop of small town life along the Mediterranean. Made into a film in 1959 starring Gina Lollobrigida, Yves Montand and Pierre Brasseur.