Author: HUGHES-HALLETT, Lucy
Title: The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War.
Description: London, Fourth Estate, Collins, 2013. Hardback, 8vo. in original dust-wrapper, 694pp. in-text b/w illustrations from photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Fair to good condition. Very light water damage to leading corner affecting dust-wrapper, upper board and front free endpaper and occasional minor cockling. Spine ends, corners bruised. Else all clean and tight. 'Not only an inspired telling of a life that becomes more repellent with each page, it illuminates early 20th-century Europe in brilliant, unexpected ways' Observer. 'Hard to beat - a biographical tour de force - a rich, voluptuous treat - a triumph, the biography of the year' Robert McCrum.

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