Mastro-Don Gesualdo

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Translated and with an Introduction by Giovanni Cecchetti. Inscribed by Cecchetti on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), faintly rubbed. Red cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, clean internally. A reprint of Verga's 19th century novel about "the economic compulsion relentlessly driving a man toward the acquisition of wealth and toward the power that great wealth generates.