The Moon and the Bonfire canada Metempsycoses

Metempsycoses

with a hand-written card indicating this to be a presentation copy from the author

Spine slightly rubbed but still a most attractive copy in contemporary calf binding

slightly soiled

The Moon and the Bonfire canada MetempsycosesLondon: John Lehmann, 1952. First Edition in English. Publisher's blue cloth with the striking John Minton designed dust jacket, which is slightly tanned at the spine but without nicks or other blemishes. Some mild foxing to endpapers and the titlepage. Without old inscriptions. A near fine copy. First published in Italian as 'La Luna e i Falo'. Considered Pavese's best novel, 'The Moon and the Bonfire' is set during the aftermath of World War Two in