Family Sayings, Natalia Ginzburg — 1st UK Edition

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Family Sayings, Natalia Ginzburg — 1st UK Edition

Name: Family Sayings, Natalia Ginzburg — 1st UK Edition
Brand: Broadhursts Books
SKU: 4618
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Publication: London, The Hogarth Press, 1967

Formatting: 8vo, pp. 222.

Condition Report: 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.

Catalogue Note: First English translation edition, first impression, of Ginzburg's Strega Prize-winning autobiographical masterpiece, originally published in Italy as Lessico famigliare 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.

The 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.

True 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.

Winner of the prestigious Strega Prize, Family Sayings 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.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: Natalia Ginzburg

Book Publisher: The Hogarth Press

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Modern Fiction

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 222

Book Publication Year: 1967

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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