No Country for Old Men (Non è un Paese per Vecchi), first Italian limited edition and true first Italian edition
Einaudi, Torino, 2005
First Italian limited edition and true first, with “2005” on the copyright page, lacking the colophon page present in the Einaudi trade editions. It is replaced by a limitation page reading: “Di questo volume sono state stampate 999 copie numerate e fuori commercio per gli Amici del libro Einaudi.” This is copy no. 35 out of 999 numbered copies. Hardcover, 22.2 x 14.1 cm, 251 numbered pages. Publisher’s yellow cloth, lettered in black, with the Einaudi logo on the front panel and spine. Wrapped in the original clear plastic dust jacket, which is 4 mm shorter than the book.
CONDITION: Very good book in a near fine clear plastic dust jacket.
This edition precedes the first trade edition, published on March 7. Although there is no trace of it in either the publisher’s electronic records or in the paperbound Catalogo Storico Einaudi, Sara Pucci of Einaudi explained in an email to me dated October 27, 2023: “These are numbered editions usually issued a few months before the first trade edition publication,” intended for distribution to representatives and booksellers.
These limited editions were published, as far as I know, from 2000 to at least 2016 in the same format but with different colored cloth bindings and varying print runs. The titles I was able to locate include:
- Antonia S. Byatt, Zucchero, Ghiaccio, Vetro Filato, blue cloth, 999 copies, 2000
- Jonathan Franzen, Le Correzioni, red cloth, 999 copies, 2002
- Philip Roth, Il complotto contro l’America, light brown cloth, 999 copies, 2005
- Melania G. Mazzucco, Limbo, green cloth, 1,060 copies, 2012
- Mo Yan, Le Rane, yellow cloth, 1,630 copies, 2013
- Elizabeth Strout, Mi chiamo Lucy Barton, green cloth, 1,130 copies, 2016
This is the only copy I have encountered and I have not seen copies of any other McCarthy title issued in this format.
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