Catalog

  • BOTO, IL DELFINO ROSA - M. THEÓPHILO

    €130.00

    AMAZONIAN TALE PRINTED IN FIRST EDITION

    Last few copies available, on sale from the Publisher’s collection on occasion of the Author’s eightieth birthday.

    One of the most beautiful Amazonian myths, embodied by a child whose innocence can save the fate of humanity. 

    Limited edition of 170 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

  • A discussion about printing - Anton F. Doni

    €150.00
    Limited edition of 250 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
    Bilingual English-Italian edition. First English appearance.
    Florence, late 15th century. An animated discussion takes place about the revolution prompted by the introduction of printing, in opposition to manuscript books. 
    The discussion reflects the opposite attitudes that, in recent times, have divided public opinion about paperless digital information and printing. The arguments are pretty much the same: aesthetic beauty versus economic convenience, nostalgia as opposed to practicality.



  • Diario di bordo di C. Colombo - J. Arce

    €170.00

    Few copies left, now on sale from the archives of the Printer.
    Typeset by hand and printed letterpress in the fifth centenary year of the discovery of America (1492-1992). 
    The attractiveness of seas never seen before, the unknown ways of life, the need to exalt and even exaggerate the qualities of the new lands to impress the King, all of this transforms what could have been an arid logbook into a testimony of exceptional importance.

  • La Genesi

    €170.00
    Limited 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.
  • Sonatina - Rubén Darío

    €180.00

    A young, beautiful princess is longing for the prince of her dreams to come to her palace and put an end to her loneliness. Her longing for love is beautifully expressed in musical, rhythmic verses which evokes a chivalric and fairy-tale atmosphere. The happy ending of the poem depicts a charming prince on a winged horse heading straight to the palace, who is soon to “ignite her lips with one amorous kiss”.

    Bilingual Spanish-Italian edition.

    Typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • "2000" - Pablo Neruda

    €180.00

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

    Nine poems, about the future and the incoming new millennium, that Neruda sent to the Tallone Press.

    Bilingual Spanish-Italian edition.

  • TRATTATELLO IN LAUDE DI DANTE - BOCCACCIO

    €200.00

    Few copies left, now on sale from the archives of the Printer.

    Original 1969 edition.

    The life of Dante, already a legend a few years after his death, narrated by the greatest storyteller of his time, the author of the “Decameron”.

    Limited edition of 600 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Il Cantico dei Cantici

    €220.00

    Limited edition of 122 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. 

  • SUMMARY - Pablo Neruda

    €240.00

    Few copies now on sell from the archives of the Printer.

    Twenty poems which depict salient experiences occurred in the childhood and youth of the Poet: his birth, the first voyage, his step-mother, his father, his first time at sea, …
    Limited edition of 87 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

  • improbabile chimera - s. bandirali

    €250.00

    Collection 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.

  • 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.