1952    479pp [4]  Cream over-hang card covers with brown lettering on face and spine. Some foxing to cover and page edges, spine slightly browned. Bookplate on inside front cover.  The tenth Notebook (published twice a year) in the Botteghe Oscure series. Contributions printed in Italian, French and English. A collection of prose, Plays and poetry in three sections. Fourteen items by French writers,  twenty-eight by English authors, six Italian writers.

(Contents: Empedocles of Agrigento – On Nature; Henri Michaux – The Stranger Speaks; Maurice Blanchot – The Traveling Companion; André Dhôtel – The Unknown Child; Robert Besson – Poems; Jean Grenier – The Disappearance of Man; Alain Jouffroy – The Enunciation; Marguerite Young – The Opium Lady; Alessandro Parronchi – Poetry; Italo Calvino – La formica argentina .).

Botteghe Oscure was a literary journal that was founded and edited in Rome by Marguerite Caetani (Princess di Bassiano) from 1948 to 1960.the title of which means ‘dark shops’,. The review was published twice a year with poetry and prose in five languages (Italian, French and English, and alternating issues featuring German and Spanish-language segments.