Bicycle Thieves

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. First American Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21cm); [vi],149pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; boards in brick cloth with white lettering. Jacket shows a few chips and tears along edges and folds with brief lost to text at head of spine and tape repairs to verso, along with some general scattered smudging and dust-soiling. Boards a bit rubbed at corners and edges with bumping at spine ends. Abrasions at top of front pastedown leaving just a ghost of a prior ownership inscription. Pages a bit toned but unmarked. Binding is sound.

First published in Italy in 1946 and basis for Vittorio De Sica's 1948 neorealist film of the same name (Ladri di biciclette). (Inventory #: 31120)