Bicycle Thieves
New York: Macmillan, 1950.
Price: $500.00
Unbound. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition, in the form of unbound signatures laid into an example of the finished dust jacket. Translated by C.J. Richards. Fine, the jacket has a stain at the bottom of the front panel and is price-clipped - presumably the publisher hadn't arrived at the final price. Date of publication stamped on titlepage. Basis for the classic Vittorio De Sica film *The Bicycle Thief*, winner of a special Academy Award before foreign films had their own category. An unusual format of this cheaply manufactured volume.
Item #535932
