WEB AUCTION 118 - LIBRI E AUTOGRAFI

FOLGORE LUCIANO
Il canto dei motori
Edizioni Futuriste di «Poesia» (Tipo-Litografia Ripalta), 1912

First edition.
Edition of 2000 copies. Collection of poems, it is the first explicitly futurist work of the author.
Defects: spine reintegrated

F. M. FORSTER
A passage to India
London, Edward Arnold & Co. 1924

In-8 18.9x12.6 cm
First edition. Binding in full red morocco by Bayntun

ALBAN BERG
Vier Stucke für Klarinette und Klavier
Wien, Universal - Edition 1924

Second edition of the score with an autographed dispatch from the Viennese maestro and his wife Helene
Nahowski to the Danish composer and conductor Paul Klenau dated 11 February 1935.

MONTALE EUGENIO
Ossi di seppia.
Piero Gobetti editore, Torino 1925


Second revised edition with autograph dedication by the author to the poet Diego Valeri (1887-1976) - "to Diego Valeri with affection of a friend and admirer, Eugenio Montale July 21, 1934".
Exemplar 436 in fine condition (small tear to the paperback to which was applied in the past some adhesive tape still visible in the back of the same.
Rare book, printed in only 450 numbered copies in the beautiful series directed by Mario Gromo for Ribet editions.
Two-colour paperback, decorative frame and editorial frieze, slight delicate restoration to the spine and back corner.
back and rear corner of the paperback, in a protective plexiglass case.

EUGENIO MONTALE
Ossi di seppia.
Torino, Fratelli Ribet editore 1928

Seconda edizione modificata con dedica autografa dell'autore al poeta Diego Valeri (1887-1976) - "a Diego Valeri con affetto di amico e di ammiratore, Eugenio Montale 21 luglio 1934".


Esemplare 436 in buone condizioni (piccolo strappo alla brossura editoriale alla quale è stato applicato in passato del nastro adesivo ancora visibile nel retro della stessa.


Libro raro, tirato in soli 450 esemplari numerati nella bella collana diretta da Mario Gromo per le edizioni Ribet.

UMBERTO SABA
Preludio e Fuga.
Firenze, Edizioni di Solaria 1928

In-8 20.6x15.4 cm
Original edition that contains, as per title, a prelude and twelve fugues for several voices, all unpublished material. It is perhaps the first non-self-published book of which the poet was more than satisfied.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A farwell to arms
New York, Charles Scribner’s son 1929

In-8 19.2x14.5 cm
Rare first edition (disclaimer ahead) of this famous story by
Hemingway.
Original dust jacket

BURNETT W.R.
Little Cesar
New York, A.L.Burt 1929

In-8 19x13. cm
First edition with original publisher's dust jacket.

HENRI DE REGNIER
La Percheresse
Paris, 1930

In-8 21.4x15.6 cm
Illustrated by Daniel Girard containing two original watercolours by Girard signed and dedicated by the author.
by the author.

GADDA CARLO EMILIO
La Madonna dei filosofi
Firenze, Edizioni di Solaria 1931

In-8 19.7x13.5
Dedicated by the author to the director and playwright Corrado Pavolini, Florence 14 April 1931.
Original edition. Copy in the edition reserved for sale. Paperback intact and slightly detached, inside marginal browning, but overall very fine. First work by what is now
is now considered one of the greatest Italian storytellers of the twentieth century. As usual for the Editions of "Solaria", the book was printed in a numbered edition from 1 to 200 (the first ten copies on fine paper). Ours is the number 24 - "which constitutes the original edition" - as well as an unspecified print run out of series, reserved for sale" (which, however, in the case of Gaddi's debut we acknowledge is of eight hundred copies.

UMBERTO SABA
Ammonizione ed altre poesie.
Trieste, Tipografia sociale 1932

In-8 20.6x15.4 cm
First edition of the juvenalia by the great Triestine poet, printed out of print in 600 copies.

MIRBEAU OCTAVE
Le journal d'une femme de chambre.
Editions Mornay Paris 1932

In-4 21.5x18 cm
Green morocco binding signed Casciani Roma including slipcase. (defects)
Edition of 900 copies, this is n.32 on Japanese paper.