{"product_id":"family-sayings-natalia-ginzburg-1st-uk-edition","title":"Family Sayings, Natalia Ginzburg — 1st UK Edition","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003ePublication:\u003c\/b\u003e London, The Hogarth Press, 1967\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eFormatting:\u003c\/b\u003e 8vo, pp. 222.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eCondition Report:\u003c\/b\u003e Very Good. The reddish-brown cloth boards are remarkably clean and sharp, free from any significant bumping or shelf-wear, and the gilt tooling on the spine remains exceptionally bright and unoxidised. The binding is firm, square, and tight, holding the text-block securely without any leaning. Internally, the pages are bright and generally clean, with only faint, superficial dusting to the text-block edges and minor age-toning typical of the paper stock. The original pictorial dust jacket is wonderfully preserved within a protective sleeve; it exhibits only very light edge-wear, subtle rubbing to the extremities, and a touch of gentle tanning to the spine panel that does not detract from its overall highly presentable state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eCatalogue Note:\u003c\/b\u003e First English translation edition, first impression, of Ginzburg's Strega Prize-winning autobiographical masterpiece, originally published in Italy as \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"167\"\u003eLessico famigliare\u003c\/i\u003e in 1963. The English translation was provided by D. M. Low. This edition was issued by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's esteemed Hogarth Press simultaneously with the American edition by E.P. Dutton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003eThe text is unillustrated, allowing Ginzburg's masterful linguistic observations to stand alone. The volume is completely devoid of any previous ownership inscriptions, bookplates, or institutional markings, making it an excellent, unmarked collector's copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"7\"\u003eTrue 1967 Hogarth Press first editions in such an attractive, unsunned dust jacket and with crisp boards have become quite scarce on the open market, as most available copies tend to be much later paperback reprints or heavily worn ex-library stock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"8\"\u003eWinner of the prestigious Strega Prize, \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"8\" data-index-in-node=\"47\"\u003eFamily Sayings\u003c\/i\u003e is Natalia Ginzburg's unsentimental, subtly comic, and deeply moving autobiographical novel chronicling her family's life in Turin from the 1920s to the 1950s. Dominated by the towering, bombastic figure of her father, the renowned anti-fascist scientist Giuseppe Levi, and textured by the private, idiosyncratic language that bound her family together, Ginzburg brilliantly captures the enduring rhythms of domestic life against the encroaching shadows of Mussolini's fascism and the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54324233568595,"sku":"4618","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260714_141441.jpg?v=1784195791","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/family-sayings-natalia-ginzburg-1st-uk-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}