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1909rif. 863141909. First Edition. PIRANDELLO Luigi. Scamandro. Rome: no publisher July 1909. Octavo original parchment wrappers; pp. 59. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box. $2500.First and only separate edition of the first published play by the winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature probably privately printed for friends in a very small number of copies. Very rare.""As a writer of poetry short stories novels essays and drama Pirandello's career is marked by change evolution and development of concepts and themes that anticipated and influenced much of 20th-century drama. His contributions include several of the absolute hallmarks of the modern stage"" Pribic 330. While Scamandro cannot claim to rank among such Pirandello masterpieces as Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore Six Characters in Search of an Author or Enrico IV Henry IV it is his first published play and points the way toward his later landmarks; it is correspondingly much more difficult to obtain in first edition as it comes from the period before his theatrical success and was privately printed. The printed dedication reads: ""A Guido Treves e Antonietta Pesenti sposi."" Scamandro first appeared serialized in Rivista di Roma Anno 10 numbers 12-13 25 June-10 July 1906. This is the first edition in book form. Text in Italian. Gambetti-Vezzosi 359. Lo Vecchio Musti 82. Spaducci 228. Some neat repairs to spine. An extremely good copy very scarce. unknown
1923rif. 003706NY: E. P. Dutton & Company 1923. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition one of 500 copies. Xxii 321pp. Green and red cloth boards; paper title labels mounted to front board and spine; lacking the jacket. Moderate bumping to bottom corners; wear at spine ends with short split at crown; toning to textblock edges. About very good. Signed by Pirandello at ffep. First American edition of the most successful and best-known novel by Italian writer Luigi Pirandello 1867-1936 recipient of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature. Translated from the Italian by Arthur Livingston. This copy signed by Pirandello at the front endpaper and incredibly scarce thus. Housed now in a custom-cut archival mylar jacket. N.B. More commonly seen first edition copies are bound in green cloth which share the same copyright information but without the "This edition of limited to 500 copies" statement found here; presumably this numbered edition preceded the later trade edition. E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover
1909rif. 863141909. First Edition. PIRANDELLO Luigi. Scamandro. Rome: no publisher July 1909. Octavo original parchment wrappers; pp. 59. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box. $2500.First and only separate edition of the first published play by the winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature probably privately printed for friends in a very small number of copies. Very rare.""As a writer of poetry short stories novels essays and drama Pirandello's career is marked by change evolution and development of concepts and themes that anticipated and influenced much of 20th-century drama. His contributions include several of the absolute hallmarks of the modern stage"" Pribic 330. While Scamandro cannot claim to rank among such Pirandello masterpieces as Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore Six Characters in Search of an Author or Enrico IV Henry IV it is his first published play and points the way toward his later landmarks; it is correspondingly much more difficult to obtain in first edition as it comes from the period before his theatrical success and was privately printed. The printed dedication reads: ""A Guido Treves e Antonietta Pesenti sposi."" Scamandro first appeared serialized in Rivista di Roma Anno 10 numbers 12-13 25 June-10 July 1906. This is the first edition in book form. Text in Italian. Gambetti-Vezzosi 359. Lo Vecchio Musti 82. Spaducci 228. Some neat repairs to spine. An extremely good copy very scarce. unknown books