The Indifferent Ones
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1932. Very Good - / Very Good -. Item #30397
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1932. First American Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth, terracotta topstain, in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 327pp. Fragile jacket quite chipped and worn with loss at spine crown touching text, spine panel rather faded, ragged splitting to front flap fold, general dust-soil, spine cocked, boards scuffed with exposure to spine ends and corners, cloth margins faded, foxing to endpapers; overall a Good to Very Good copy.
The author's first novel, a runaway bestseller in his native Italy upon its publication under the title "Gli Indifferenti" when the author was just twenty-five years old. A precocious examination of the unraveling of familial morality, The Indifferent Ones spans the two days in which a young woman decides to take her married mother's lover as her lover as well. No wonder the first print run sold out so quickly.
Price: $1,000.00