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Fontamara

by Ignazio Silone, tr. Harvey Fergusson II

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Atheneium Publishers, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 240 pages. First American edition of English translation from Silone's post-war revised version of his famous anti-fascist novel (first published 1933 when he was in exile in Switzerland, issued in English by Penguin Books 1934; revised 1949). Foreword by Malcolm Cowley, Note on the Revision of Fontamara written by Silone 1959. Small 8vo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4"), beige cloth with red/white/green lettering on spine, title blind-stamped from back board around to front, tan stain to front board from contact with another book, black topstain and end papers, scant shelf wear, vertical tan stains on p. 200-01 from laid-in newspaper clipping (Christian Science Monitor review of Silone's play The Story of a Humble Christian) which conveys with the book and on p. 70-1 evidently from a bookmark; book also falls open to that page. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date 1960 written on second fly-leaf, his marginalia observed on five pages primarily relate to word-choices by the translator.

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Bookseller
Berthoff Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
WBB-1064
Title
Fontamara
Author
Ignazio Silone, tr. Harvey Fergusson II
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Atheneium Publishers
Date Published
1960
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
MALCOLM COWLEY, FASCISM, SOCIALISM, PEASANT LIFE, ITALY, ABRUZZO, NOVEL
Bookseller catalogs
Italian literature in translation; Ignazio Silone;

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