The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa (First English Edition)
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DI LAMPEDUSA, Giuseppe. The Leopard. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1960. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun.
First English edition. Set in the 1860s Sicily, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The novel was adapted into a lavish historical epic by Luchino Visconti in 1963, starring Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale and Burt Lancaster.
8vo, 254 pp. Very good in dust wrapper (spine slightly dulled; short closed tear to front face; price-clipped; in clear, removable protective sleeve).
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