Search Results: Ignazio Silone from Berthoff Books

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 319 pages. A Story Press Book. First American edition of English translation, done from the Italian of Silone's first version of this anti-fascist novel. Written while Silone was in exile in Switzerland, it was first published in German 1936. 8vo, light green cloth with gilt lettering readable on front board but more faded on sunned spine, wraps soiled, fore-edge rough-cut, wear with fraying to corners/crown/heel, book slightly cocked, hinges cracked, text block a bit loose from binding though still attached - block slides to flush with bottom edge of the boards while unusually far down (3/8") from the top. Small newspaper clipping mentioning Silone taped to ffep, where there is also an old price in pencil. No markings observed on text pages.

Atheneium Publishers, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 240 pages. First American edition of English translation from Silone's post-war revised version of his famous anti-fascist novel (first published 1933 when he was in exile in Switzerland, issued in English by Penguin Books 1934; revised 1949). Foreword by Malcolm Cowley, Note on the Revision of Fontamara written by Silone 1959. Small 8vo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4"), beige cloth with red/white/green lettering on spine, title blind-stamped from back board around to front, tan stain to front board from contact with another book, black topstain and end papers, scant shelf wear, vertical tan stains on p. 200-01 from laid-in newspaper clipping (Christian Science Monitor review of Silone's play The Story of a Humble Christian) which conveys with the book and on p. 70-1 evidently from a bookmark; book also falls open to that page. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date 1960 written on second fly-leaf, his marginalia observed on… Read More

Harper & Brothers, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 141 pages. Translation of novella published in Italian in 1960, set amid tensions between Italian fascists and socialists in post-war Switzerland. 8vo, black paper over boards with purple cloth quarter, silver and blue gilt lettering on spine and decoration, blue end papers, rough-cut fore-edge, practically no visible shelf wear, rear hinge loose inside rfep. Initials of former owner and date May 1961 written on half-title, pages unmarked. Laid-in photographic portrait of Silone clipped from a newspaper.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 360 pages. First American edition of English translation of Silone's anti-fascist novel, sequel to Bread and Wine and Fontamara. 8vo, black cloth with patterned weave, faded gilt lettering on front board and spine, fore-edge rough-cut, light shelf wear with small hole in cloth at bottom of front board, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, foxing to end papers. Old price and other notation in pencil on ffep, text pages unmarked.

Harper & Row, 1970. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 207 pages. Translation of historical play published in Italian 1969, set in the 13th century and the biography of Pope Celestine V. Includes 18 pages of historical notes on the Conclave of Perugia, Pope Boniface VIII, and the treatment of Celestine by Dante and Petrarch. 8vo, brown paper over boards with lighter brown cloth quarter, black lettering on spine, blind-stamped colophon, dark olive end papers, rough-cut fore-edge, foxing to edges spills onto some page margins, little shelf wear. Pencil marks in margin on approximately 10 pages of the introductory chapters. Laid-in newspaper clipping of review by Irving Howe of a different one of Silone's books, Emergency Exit.