Un Paese

by Cesare Zavattini

photographs by Paul Strand 

First edition, in Italian.  Torino:  Giulio Einaudi, 1955  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition, with a GOOD DJ under Mylar.

• Pale gray covers have title in red and black ink at spine. 
• Boards show some wear, staining, spotting, exposure at head and foot edges.  Corners are sharp, a little scuffed.  See photos.  
• Spine has red and black text and is bright with frayed, softened ends.  See photos.
• Binding is strong. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some scattered light foxing.  
• Illustrations, duotone photgraphs, are bright and clear.  
• Interior exhibits some smudges, scattered foxing, light edgewear. some ripples, a little toning. 
• Inside pages are largely clean; page 103 has pencil notes translating text in English.  See photos.  
• Text block edges have some foxing.
• DJ is nicely preserved behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper.
• DJ, pale green paper with photo illustrations to both covers, shows edgewear, bumping along foot and a triangular chip, chipping and closed tears along head, chipped corners, tanning of spine strip, some soiling.  See photos. 
• PS2026.0715

105 pages. 9 x 11.5 inches

First, original edition.  In Italian.  Publisher's pale gray buckram boards with title in red and black at spine.  With the original dust jacket, pale green paper with duotone photo illustration, now under archival Mylar.  Boards show some wear and staining at edges.  Interior generally very good, with a sprinkle of foxing to end papers, a couple of smudges.  Condition is overall Very Good under a Good jacket for this first issue classic of neo-realist photo reportage.

Italian screenwriter Cesare Zavattini (1902-1989) joined renowned photographer Paul Strand (1890-1976) to capture in word and photo the daily rhythms and spirit of Luzzara, Reggio Emilia, in the immediate post-War period.  This is the only volume published of what was planned by Zavattini to be a series documenting the everyday lives and faces of ordinary Italians across different regions, edited by various artists of the neo-realist school.  The combination of Strand's photographs and the first person accounts of Luzzara's residents is a powerful work of social history.

Original edition.  Rotogravure printing executed by the Amilcare Pizzi firm, Milan.  Printing by the Stamperia Artistica Nazionale, Torino.  Completed April 2, 1955. 

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