LAMPEDUSA, Giuseppe Tomasi di (1896-1957). The Leopard, London, 1960, 8vo, original green cloth, dust-jacket. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION.

LAMPEDUSA, Giuseppe Tomasi di (1896-1957).  The Leopard ... Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1960. 8vo (209 x 140mm). Half title. Original green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dust-jacket designed by Hans Tindall with price of 16s. unclipped. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST U.K. EDITION of this novel which was first published posthumously in Italy in 1958 under its original title 'Il Gattopardo', becoming the the top-selling novel by an Italian writer.  In 1959 it won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Premio Strega.