252pp. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. 12mo. Spine moderately sun-faded, ends rounded. Corners lightly rubbed and rounded, boards have light fading to top and edges with general wear all over. Text block lightly tanned and foxing. Free endpapers starting to fox, light pencil markings to front free endpaper. Rear hinge cracked and straining. Internally pages are age toned with occasional spotting and gutter strained mid-way through otherwise, neat, clean and bright. A picture of family life on the farm on the banks of the River Po, Italy. Then through time along comes the dreamer and the great dream: the boy who has absorbed the spirit of his beloved farm, but who has a later vision of the universal brotherhood of man.
