New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. Item #1024 8vo. 205 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [vi], 319 pp. Original cloth, dust jacket; cloth slightly faded and dust jacket with chips at top edge and spine with pieces missing. Book plate of Douglas Sager, Jr. A good copy.
First American edition of Silone's anti-fascist novel, that is set in the province of the Abruzzi and Rome and documents the struggles of an independent people with the growing threat of dictatorship in the name of progress. Widely acclaimed for its character development and the pace of the action of the story, Silone's Bread and Wine is considered one of the great novels of mid-twentieth century.
Price: $45.00