STORY OF A PUPPET, OR THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO

by Carlo Collodi

$7,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

New York: Cassell, 1892. First edition of PINOCCHIO in English, the rarer US issue, bound in the US from British sheets. Very good plus. Item #30918 After a career in journalism, Collodi turned to children's literature, first translating a collection of Perrault's fairy tales into Italian. Soon he would conceive of a distinctly Italian fairy tale, complex and fantastical: Its lessons are simple, but it is not a simplistic

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