Bicycle Thieves

New York: Macmillan, 1950. Unbound. Fine/Very Good. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition, in the form of unbound signatures laid into an example of the finished dust jacket. Translated by C.J. Richards. Fine, the jacket has a stain at the bottom of the front panel and is price-clipped - presumably the publisher hadn't arrived at the final price. Date of publication stamped on titlepage. Basis for the classic Vittorio De Sica film *The Bicycle Thief*, winner of a special Academy Award before foreign films had their own category. An unusual format of this cheaply manufactured volume.