Author: JOHNSON, BEN (EDITOR)
Title: Stories of Modern Italy from Verga, Svevo and Pirandello to the Present (Modern Library #118. 4)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1962]. Hardcover. An English-language collection of 26 modern Italian short stories in a Modern Library edition in jacket. Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Ben Johnson. Translated from the Italian by Mr. Johnson, D. H. Lawrence and others. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style j, verso lists 415 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1962 (though 1960 date appears in book). ML #118.4. --- A newish copy, but with gift inscription to verso of half title and creases to fore-edges of some leaves, otherwise a bright & tightly-bound. Unclipped, bright dust jacket with darkened spine, else in good shape and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; xxv, 513 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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