signed first edition gray paper wrapper with red and black lettering and the <> printer’s mark
1919 · Roma
by Giuseppe Prezzolini
Prezzolini, Giuseppe. Paradossi Educativi. Scuola e Vita Biblioteca Popolare di Pedagogia Diretta da G. Lombardo Radice N. 20. Società Anonima Editrice, Roma, Trinità Monti 18, 1919. First edition. 8vo, 18.5 cm. The original gray paper wrapper with red and black lettering and the printer's mark of a man tilling his garden on the front cover and an advertisement for L'Educazione Nazionale of G. Lombardo-Radice on the back cover. The original price of 2 lire appears at the foot of the back cover. [91 pages, Nota, indice; 4 pages of advertisements for Istituto Bibliografico Italiano, Roma]. This copy is signed, inscribed and dated by Prezzolini: "all'amico Riccio GPrezzolini N.Y. 1927."
Mostly unopened, this rare surviving inscribed copy records the nexus of Riccio, a first-generation Italian American, with Prezzolini, whose legendary "Voice" was far more than a review and was a publication of enormous importance to Italian culture and intellectual life. The paper is browning at the edges and is fragile. True to form, and ever the visionary, Prezzolini's first essay from 1914 is entitled, "La Coltura Popolare." Contact us for a full description. (Inventory #: 509)
Mostly unopened, this rare surviving inscribed copy records the nexus of Riccio, a first-generation Italian American, with Prezzolini, whose legendary "Voice" was far more than a review and was a publication of enormous importance to Italian culture and intellectual life. The paper is browning at the edges and is fragile. True to form, and ever the visionary, Prezzolini's first essay from 1914 is entitled, "La Coltura Popolare." Contact us for a full description. (Inventory #: 509)
