Il Canzoniere (1900-1945)
Features
Author: Umberto Saba
Publisher: Giulio Einaudi Editore
Place of printing: Rome
Year of publication: 1945
Product Condition:
Copy in good condition. Editorial paperback with titles on the spine, titles and illustration in the center of the front cover: dust spots, traces of dirt, signs of wear on the edges and corners, price in lire printed on the back cover; spine particularly darkened with streaks. Pen annotation on the first flyleaf and pencil annotation on the last flyleaf. Binding slightly unglued. Well preserved leaves, browned at the edges; dents at the lower corners from page 255 to 258; minimal tears on the side edge from page 487 to 490; typographical error: the page number 489 is printed upside down. Enclosed is an Einaudi advertising flyer. Text in Italian.
Pages: 610,(2)
Format: In eighth
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 20
Width: 15
Description
First edition of this radical reworking of Saba's Canzoniere, published in 1921, now out of print and to be updated with the poetic production of the last twenty years. After some partial publications by Treves (Figure e canti in 1926 and Tre compositi in 1933) and Carabba (Parole in 1934), Saba constructed this new edition with Einaudi, which was published during the publishing house's Roman parenthesis, on 31 August 1945. The print run was 2900 unnumbered copies (10 on selected paper for the poet's friends and a few hundred hardbacks). The preface, signed “L'Editore”, is by Giacomo Debenedetti: “We have decided to publish, in a difficult moment for publishing, all of Umberto Saba's poetic works... because we believe that, for once, useless beauty can teach something in a time in which the problem for man is either to find himself or to accept irreparable ruin”
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