first edition Hardcover
1931
by Papini, Giovanni; Agnetti, Mary Prichard (trans)
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Black cloth boards with silver lettering under black & orange dust jacket. A lovely copy; corners of flaps are clipped at very short diagonals. First edition stated. A novel of a multimillionaire who decides to spend his life experiencing as much as possible--he tests the limits of the possible, whether within or without moral standards, has conversations with great thinkers of the day (Gandhi, Einstein, Ford, etc.)...and maybe even kills. (Inventory #: 202078)