The Leopard

Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. First English edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 255pp. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Slight foxing to edges of text block. In the Hans Tindall designed dust jacket with Book Society Choice and original price of 16s.net to front flap. Jacket rubbed; spine sunned; spine ends frayed. *** A first printing of this Italian classic and international bestseller; the only novel by Di Lamedusa, who died a year before it was published in Italy (in 1958).