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Le avventure di Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
€600.00The most famous Italian novel, letterpress-printed on light-blue pure-cotton paper (the same color as the hair of the Blue Fairy), mould-made in Sicily expressly for this edition.
Limited edition of 190 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.
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Lamine d'oro orfiche
€300.00Limited 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. -
La Genesi
€170.00Limited edition of 500 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.First book of the Bible and the Torah, Genesis is the story of the origin of the world and mankind according to Christian and Jewish faith.
Foreword by Monsignor Gianfranco Ravasi. Text edited by the Italian Bishops’ Conference. -
La Copa de Sangre - Pablo Neruda
€2,100.00FIRST ORIGINAL EDITION (1969)
In Spanish. Limited edition of 470 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
This copy, which comes from the Printer’s collection, has been put on sale in conjunction with the 50th anniversary year of the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda (1971-2021).
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La commedia - Dante Alighieri
€1,200.00Over a million types were used for the hand typesetting of this edition, which stands as a unique achievement in contemporary printing.
Limited edition of 209 numbered copies. An edition in 3 volumes (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) housed in a handmade box.
Italian edition.
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La commedia - Dante Alighieri
€1,300.00Few copies left, now on sale at a special price.
Limited edition of 700 numbered copies. An edition in 3 volumes (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) printed by Alberto Tallone in 1967-68.
Over a million types were used for the hand typesetting of this edition.
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L'INFINITO - GIACOMO LEOPARDI
€60.00The sonnet which most Italians know by heart.Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.Glass and wood frame gilded with genuine gold leaf, featuring a fold-away hook for vertical hanging. -
KUPAHÚBA, canto della foresta Amazzonica
€280.00Limited 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.
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Italian wood types - specimen book 2/2
€720.00The present alphanumeric series is printed from big, original wood types, which were handcrafted in Italy between 1850 and 1950 to be used on large broadsides.In fact, for over a century, opera and theatre plays, circus shows and fairs, political rallies and new movie releases were advertised using these iconic typefaces. -
Italian wood types - specimen book 1/2
€580.00Type specimen book printed from wood types cut by hand in Italy between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Their kaleidoscopic expressiveness, either Apollonian or Dionysian, oldstyle or fanciful, reflects the scope of Italian creativity in the field of wood type engraving.
This edition is part of the collections of major libraries, in Italy and abroad.
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improbabile chimera - s. bandirali
€250.00Collection of 7 poems, dedicated to Dino Campana and his love for Sibilla Aleramo.
73 copies letterpress printed. Texts have been set by hand in original foundry types. Woodcut by Edoardo Fontana.
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Il Cantico dei Cantici
€120.00Limited edition of 356 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
Famous love poem from the Bible in the form of a dialogue between a young woman and her lover.
