Botteghe Oscure. A complete run of this multi-lingual literary journal, founded by Marguerite Caetani, Princess of Bassiano, and edited by Giorgio Bassani and later Eugene Walter from their Rome offic

by GIORGIO BASSANI AND EUGENE WALTER (edit).

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First edition · In dust jacket

Botteghe Oscure, Rome 1948-1960 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First editions, complete in 25 volumes. 8vo. Lettered card wrappers. Eight of the final nine volumes housed in the original dust wrappers (the first fifteen volumes were not issued with dust wrappers, although some appeared with wraparound bands, one of which remains in situ here). A few of the card wrappers are a little toned, and dust soiled with an occasional scattering of light spotting. The wrappers of one volume (XI) exhibit some creasing and splashes of indeterminate staining. Contemporary inked inscription to the first leaf of another volume (XXI). In all a very good set of this important biannual literary journal of poetry and prose in Italian, French and English, also with some German-language and Spanish-language contributions. Lacking the 1948-52 index volume (1953). Across its twelve-year run the journal attracted a vast number of internationally renowned contributors including Conrad Aiken, W. H. Auden, James Agee, George Barker, Saul Bellow, Elizabeth Bowen, Jocelyn Brooke, Truman Capote, e. e. cummings Laurie Lee, Robert Lowell, Carson McCullers, George Santayana, Edith Sitwell, Elizabeth Taylor, Dylan Thomas (the first printing of both his poem Do not go gentle into that good night , and also Llareggub which was the genesis of Under Milk Wood ), Alexander Trocchi, William Carlos Williams, Georges Bataille, Albert Camus, Ren Char, Andr Fr naud, Paul Val ry, Giorgio Bassani, Italo Calvino

• Publisher: Botteghe Oscure, Rome 1948-1960
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: Paperback

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