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  • Trattato della vita elegante - Balzac

    €280.00
    Upon request and without additional charge, the book can be personalised with a printed inscription (i.e.: "Copy printed for John Doe”), to be typeset by hand and printed at the beginning of the book.
    Limited edition of 193 copies typeset by hand and letterpress printed.
    Balzac makes a shrewd and ironic critique of the bourgeois society born after the French Revolution, revealing all its ridiculousness and clumsiness. In fact, elegance belongs to few.
    Those who climb the rungs of the social ladder have to continually invent new forms of distinction. This resulting cyclical renewal is what we call fashion.



  • the nocturnal train - pablo neruda

    €280.00

    Limited edition of 48 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.
    Tri-lingual edition
    (Spanish, Italian, and English).

    On the 13th December 1971 to Pablo Neruda was given the Nobel Prize of Literature.


    Fifty years after the awarding (1971-2021), the choice to print "The Nocturnal Train" (from "Sumario. Libro donde nace la lluvia", Tallone Editore, 1963, first edition) is a way to pay homage to the Poet who, like his friend Alberto Tallone, was an enthusiastic lover of steam locomotives, an archetype of a liberated time, that of poetry and travel, as expression of knowledge and dynamism.

  • KUPAHÚBA, canto della foresta Amazzonica

    €280.00
    Limited edition of 320 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    Collection of inedited poems by Márcia Theóphilo, dedicated to the Amazon Forest, where the author spent her infancy, living there with her grandmother.

    As an anthropologist and a writer, she contributes to preserve the oral culture of the Indian tribes

    Includes an etching by Aldo Turchiaro.

  • Sull’indole del piacere e del dolore - P. Verri

    €280.00

    Limited edition of 135 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    Pietro Verri (Milan 1728-1797) sheds light on the nature of human passions and the mechanisms of pleasure, anticipating the new theories of unconscious mental processes, which spur men to act in the pursuit of happiness. 

  • Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni

    €280.00

    Limited edition of 118 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    A debate between advocates of the ongoing superiority of Latin and Greek, and proponents of vernacular, already fully affirmed in the 16th century, celebrates the beauty and the full dignity of the Italian language.

  • Messia - Guido Ceronetti

    €280.00

    First edition in Italian. Limited edition of 56 copies typeset by hand, numbered and letterpress printed.

    Poems and proses dedicated to the figure of the Messiah. Written by Guido Ceronetti, Ionesco, Virgil, Eraclitus, Isaiah, Black Elk, Rimbaud, Bloy, Beckett, Joyce, Mansour, Sibony.

  • Canti orfici - dino campana

    €300.00

    With three unpublished letters by Dino Campana.

    Foreword by Davide Rondoni. Final note by Gigliola Tallone. 

    Limited edition of 140 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Visioni della vita rapita – Davide Rondoni

    €300.00

    Limited edition of 120 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    First Italian anthology of Davide Rondoni’s poetry. It includes 50 poems, out of which 16 are unedited.

  • Lamine d'oro orfiche

    €300.00

    Limited edition of 8 copies typeset by hand in original 19th-century movable types.
    The ‘Orphic’ gold tablets are tiny scraps of gold foils engraved with precepts meant as instructions to enter the Afterlife. Those fascinating invocations are one of the first evidence of ancient Greek religion, and exerted a great influence on later Greek culture.

  • CONVIVIO - Dante Alighieri

    €320.00

    Original 1965 edition now on sale at a special price, in conjunction with the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death (1321-2021).

    Typeset by hand and printed letterpress by Alberto Tallone (1898-1968) in Alpignano, where the Press is still active today. 

    Limited edition of 700 numbered copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Leonardo da Vinci's resume

    €340.00

    The first modern ‘curriculum vitae’, written by Leonardo da Vinci to the Duke in Milan, proves to be a document of rare effectiveness.

  • Poems - Emily Dickinson

    €350.00

    Limited edition of 258 copies typeset by hand, numbered and letterpress printed.
    English edition.

    Collection of 130 poems by the ironic, solar New England poetess, one of the greatest poetical voices of all times.