Arturo’s Island

First edition. 384pp. Translated by Isabel Quigly. Publisher’s blue cloth with gilt to spine. Lower board a little soiled; corners pushed. Slight foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. Lacking dust jacket. *** Scarce first UK edition of this novel by Elena Morante, best known for the follow-up to this, History, which appeared almost twenty years later, in 1974.