Softbound 8vo in publisher's illustrated wrappers with glassine dust jacket. Margins slightly browned, else a fine copy. The green slip is preserved although lacking a small piece: "Salvatore Quasimodo NOBEL 1959. Mondadori." This copy is inscribed in full name on front free endpaper in bluepen to the Swedish poet and member of the Swedish Academy Johannes Edfelt when Quasimodo was in Stockholm to receive the Nobel Price in literature: "al poeta e critico Johannes Edfelt con affectiona amici ... , Salvatore Quasimodo." 60 p. , (VIII).
Italian