Snow and Steel. Translated from the Italian by Rudolph Altrocchi.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. Item #1008 8vo. 190 x 130 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches]. [8], 3450, plus 3 pp. ads. Original red publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Jacket extremities quite rubbed and worn with several shortish tears, including two measuring approximately 1 inch to front jacket panel, spine a bit cocked. With a contemporary pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Near fine in a good or better copy of the scarce dust jacket.
First American edition of Sommi-Picenardi's series of short stories which tell the tales of the World War I and a brigade of Alpine soldiers who patrolled and engaged in combat in the Austrian/Italian Alps. "The stories are realistic documents -- given by one who has lived them -- in which are mingled the vast drama of nations and the lesser drama of individuals thrown by ware into startlingly significant relationships."
Price: $175.00