Quo Vadis (Signed Limited Edition)
signed first edition
1959 · Verona
by SIENKIEWICZ, Henryk and Salvatore Fiume
Verona: Limited Editions Club and The Officina Bodoni, 1959. First edition thus. Hardcover. 594 pages. Number 1332 from an edition of 1500 copies designed and printed by Giovanni Mardersteig. Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. Features illustrations by Salvatore Fiume. A clean and tight near fine copy in cloth boards with some very minor wear in a very good plus dust jacket with some light wear, some toning to the spine with a chip to the top as well and in a near fine slipcase with some minor wear. Signed by both Mardersteig and Curtin on the colophon page. An attractive edition of this classic which was the basis for the movie with Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, and Robert Taylor. (Inventory #: 197675)