STORY OF A PUPPET, OR THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO

by Carlo Collodi

$6,400 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First edition of PINOCCHIO in English, a title in the Children's Library. Very good plus. Item #24214 After a career in journalism, Collodi turned to children's literature, first translating a collection of Perrault's fairy tales into Italian. Soon he would conceive of a distinctly Italian fairy tale, complex and fantastical: Its lessons are simple, but it is not a simplistic text

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