STRATI, Saverio. The Lights of Reggio
STRATI, Saverio. The Lights of Reggio. Trans. from the Italian by Angus Davidson. London: John Murray. 1965. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the fabulous wraparound dust jacket designed by Charles Mozley. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and the binding tight and square. The textblock with a handful of minor marks along with a few light marks towards the fore-edge of a handful of pages, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net) and complete, with minor abrasion to front panel lower corner--made mostly discreet by the jacket design--and some light nicks to corners and some edges. A sharp copy overall.
An appealing realist novel. The story of a sixteen-year-old country boy who lives on his father's small and rural farm. When he finally is allowed to visit the closest town, Reggio Calabria, he is overwhelmed. Desperate to revisit it, he steals from his parents and makes his way back. Once there, he begins to see the quiet indifference of the busy town and its people. Strati was from that town, and trained as a stonemason before turning to fiction. Only a few of his novels appeared in English and this one is particularly uncommon.
STRATI, Saverio. The Lights of Reggio. Trans. from the Italian by Angus Davidson. London: John Murray. 1965. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the fabulous wraparound dust jacket designed by Charles Mozley. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and the binding tight and square. The textblock with a handful of minor marks along with a few light marks towards the fore-edge of a handful of pages, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net) and complete, with minor abrasion to front panel lower corner--made mostly discreet by the jacket design--and some light nicks to corners and some edges. A sharp copy overall.
An appealing realist novel. The story of a sixteen-year-old country boy who lives on his father's small and rural farm. When he finally is allowed to visit the closest town, Reggio Calabria, he is overwhelmed. Desperate to revisit it, he steals from his parents and makes his way back. Once there, he begins to see the quiet indifference of the busy town and its people. Strati was from that town, and trained as a stonemason before turning to fiction. Only a few of his novels appeared in English and this one is particularly uncommon.
STRATI, Saverio. The Lights of Reggio. Trans. from the Italian by Angus Davidson. London: John Murray. 1965. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the fabulous wraparound dust jacket designed by Charles Mozley. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and the binding tight and square. The textblock with a handful of minor marks along with a few light marks towards the fore-edge of a handful of pages, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net) and complete, with minor abrasion to front panel lower corner--made mostly discreet by the jacket design--and some light nicks to corners and some edges. A sharp copy overall.
An appealing realist novel. The story of a sixteen-year-old country boy who lives on his father's small and rural farm. When he finally is allowed to visit the closest town, Reggio Calabria, he is overwhelmed. Desperate to revisit it, he steals from his parents and makes his way back. Once there, he begins to see the quiet indifference of the busy town and its people. Strati was from that town, and trained as a stonemason before turning to fiction. Only a few of his novels appeared in English and this one is particularly uncommon.