The Watch by Carlo Levi - 1952

Farrar, Straus & Young, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Farrar, Straus & Young. hardcover. Good. 8x5x1. 1951. A standard hardcopy copy with a tight and square binding. Black and green hardcovers are good (clean, no edge wear). Text is clean but has yellowed. Dust jacket has wear (tear, edge wear, yellowed). Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery. Shipped in 100% recyclable material.

Farrar, Straus & Young, 1951T. hardcover. Good. 1.0236 in x 7.7165 in x 5.4331 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

NY: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1951. 8vo, pp. 442. Translated from the Italian. Black cloth, with green spine. A VG tight copy.

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Young, 1951. 8vo. [xvi], 442 pp.  Publisher's black cloth boards, green cloth spine, label in black and gold on spine.  Dust jacket fragile, chips to head and tail of spine, some tears; secured by mylar wrapper. Second America printing.  Levi's novel, set in Rome and Naples, is based on his own experience after the War trying to reestablish himself as a writer and artist.  Recovering from the disaster that was the fascist government of Mussolini and his black shirts, Levi recounts the attempts to form a society that abandoned the past and rid the country of government of the rich, for the rich, and by the rich.  His story, set in 1946, "when the last Cabinet of 'Men of the Resistence' gave way to the first De Gaspari Government, and the hopes of a radical reform of political life were shelved. . ."  His story resonates with the impact that fascism, the war, and recovery had on the everyday person in Italian society. Carlo Levi (1902-1975), the award winning… Read More

Cassell and Company Ltd , 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Translated by John Farrar. Previous owners signature. Publication of 296 pages. The dust jacket is a touch edge worn. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Steerforth Press, 1999. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Slight wear from storage..

E-141: Farrar, Straus & Young. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Farrar, Straus & Young. 1951. 212 pgs. First Edition/First Printing (assumed; FSY colophon present). Daniel Bell's copy. DJ has shelf-wear present (chipped and worn with a large chip present to the crown of the spine). Bound in half cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Daniel Bell's name present to the reverse of the front board and to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Daniel or Elaine Bell's notes present to the reverse of the rear endpaper. Binding tight and solid. The Watch, first published in 1950, is a portrait of Rome and Italy in the dopoguerra - the period after the war - when the heroism and sacrifice of the partisan war against the Germans ran head-on into a rockwall of conservative reaction. The year is 1948, the main character works for a newspaper in Rome, his friends and family and… Read More

Zoland Books, 1999-06-01. Paperback. Good.

Farrar, Straus and Young, NY, 1951. Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes First American Edition. Very good in very good nicked, minor edgechipped, faint stain spine panel dust jacket. *