Moby Dick o la balena. Illustrazioni di Giorgio De Gaspari

by Herman Melville

$225 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Milano: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1955 . First edition of this abridgement, small 4to 23.5 cm , pp. 2 , 149, 3 ; 4 color plates; pictorial boards; very good, sound, and clean copy. The first translation into Italian was that of Cesare Pavese in 1932. Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:38. OCLC locates the Newberry copy and one other in Italy. Item #71464

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