Le avventure di Pinocchio

Features

Author:  Carlo Collodi, Vsevolod Nicouline

Publisher:  Italgeo Editrice

Place of printing:  Milan

Year of publication:  1944

Product Condition:
Example in good condition, missing case. Half cloth binding with title on the front plate bound in white silk: yellowing, dust and dirt stains on the plates; abrasions at the curved corners; faded spine; partial detachment from the upper cuff, without missing parts. Cut at the upper edge and peeling with small detachment of the silk covering at the upper corner of the front plate. Binding slightly loose between pages 80 and 81 and between pages 112 and 113. Endpapers with slight waviness. Burnished cuts with dust spots and minimal blooms; golden head cuts. Well-preserved cards: minimal browning and dirt stains, particularly at the outer corners. Slight ink stain and minimal cut at the bottom margin on pages 61-62. Two blooms on pages 76 and 77. The seventh plate, located between pages 106 and 107, is partially detached, with a pen mark on the lower margin. Minimal tear at the bottom margin on pages 149-150 and 197-198. Pencil signature of the illustrator on the colophon. Text in Italian language.

Pages:  198,(10)

Format:  Fourth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  32
Width:  25

Description

Luxury edition limited edition of 999 copies with artist's signature. At the origin of this fascinating edition of Pinocchio there is a particular story: the work was commissioned to the Russian artist Vsevolod Nicouline by the founder of the Italgeo publishing house for the birth of his son. Collodi's text gives the great illustrator the inspiration for the creation of a very colorful and fascinating world, with his unmistakable style, which is expressed in 71 color illustrations, 12 in plates ft and 59 nt

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