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SVEVO, Italo. The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl and Other Stories. Hogarth Press, London, 1930.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Translated by L. Collison-Morley. Introductory note by Eugenio Montale. Owner signature of Edwin L. Gilcher, noted collector and bibliographer of George Moore, some pages and text block edges modestly foxed, spine tanned with a few spots, about very good, lacking the dust jacket. Other stories include "Generous Wine," "The Mother" and "The Old, Old Man."

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Svevo, Italo ( Translated by L. Collison-Morley ). The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl. The Hogarth Press, London, United Kingdom, 1930.

Price: US$277.89 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First UK Edition, First Print. pp. [i - iix 9-162. Original pale brown boards, Black lettering to spine. Tight binding, Light edge wear, pages are clean with spotting to pages.

Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland

Svevo (Italo, i.e. Ettore Schmitz). The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl. Translated from the Italian by L. Collison-Morley.. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1930.

Price: US$292.54 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, light spotting to prelims, pp. 162, crown 8vo, original pink cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and sunned with lean to spine, a little rubbed at extremities with a couple of tiny spots of wear, the cloth a little faded to borders, free endpapers browned, bookplate of Richard Strachey (see below), with his address at Belsize Park Gardens written to top corner of flyleaf (dated 1934), good. The copy of author Richard Strachey, the nephew of Oliver, Dorothy, James, Lytton (whose favourite he was), et al. - his address here, 64 Belsize Gardens in Hampstead, is close to the house, at 67, where that generation had spent some of their youth. One of 1,012 copies. (Woolmer 239)

Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom

Svevo, Italo ; [Montale, Eugenio]. The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl and other stories.; Translated from the Italian by L. Collison-Morley. Hogarth Press, London, 1930.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: Brown cloth, foxing to edges, else fine in lightly used dust jacket with small stains. Introductory note by Eugenio Montale. Woolmer 239.

Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.