SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, with no other name present. States 'First Published by New Directions in 1949' on the copyright page. With an original critical essay by Ernest Hemingway, who calls Vittorini "one of the very best of the new Italian writers." A novelized anti-Fascist parable of a modern city man who feels called to return to his ancestral village in Sicily, to live a primitive but enriching natural existence. From the collection of legendary bookseller Roger Carlson of Bookman's Alley, with his pencil marking on the free endpaper corner. Book is fine, clean and unmarked. The scarce jacket is very good, clean and bright, with a tiny spine corner chip and light dust offsetting to the back panel. In an archival Mylar jacket cover.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

In Sicily

Publisher

New Directions, New York

Publication Date

1949

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Gertrude Huston

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

Signed

Signed

Seller catalogs

Fiction

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