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  • VEINTE POEMAS DE AMOR - P. NERUDA

    €580.00

    It includes an original graphic print by Ugo Nespolo, made expressly for this edition.

    Language: Spanish and Italian.

    Few copies of this book are now on sale in conjunction with the celebrations for the centenary of the first edition (1924-2024).

    This collection of poems gained Neruda international recognition. It was published in Santiago, Chile in 1924, when the Poet was twenty years old. The collection includes some of Neruda's most famous poems, among which Cuerpo de mujer, Te recuerdo como eras, Me gustas cuando callas.

  • Viaggio nel Tahmisat - Lapo Sagramoso

    €2,600.00

    Only copy. It includes an original watercolor. Italian edition.

    Printed in first edition, “Viaggio nel Tahmisat” is the chronicle of an adventurous journey into the exotic and legendary "Realm of Tahmisat", a land of unknown civilizations, out of time and desirable, narrated with a humorous and sublime language. 

    This edition is limited to 33 unique copies, each printed on a different, top-quality paper. Moreover, each copy includes an original watercolour painted by the author.



  • Viaggio nel Tahmisat - Lapo Sagramoso

    €2,800.00

    Only copy. It includes an original watercolor. Italian edition.

    Fictional novel.

    Printed in first edition, “Viaggio nel Tahmisat” is the chronicle of an adventurous journey into the exotic and legendary "Realm of Tahmisat", a land of unknown civilizations, out of time and desirable, narrated with a humorous and sublime language. 

    This edition is limited to 33 unique copies, each printed on a different, top-quality paper. Moreover, each copy includes an original watercolour painted by the author.



  • Viaggio nel Tahmisat - Lapo Sagramoso

    €2,500.00

    It includes an original watercolor painted by the author.
    Italian edition.

    Fictional novel.

    Printed in first edition, “Viaggio nel Tahmisat” is the chronicle of an adventurous journey into the exotic and legendary "Realm of Tahmisat", a land of unknown civilizations, out of time and desirable, narrated with a humorous and sublime language. 

    This edition is limited to 33 copies, each printed on a different, top-quality paper. Moreover, each copy includes an original watercolour painted by the author.



  • Trattato della vita elegante - Balzac

    €2,800.00
    Upon request and without additional charge, the book can be personalised with a printed inscription (i.e.: "Copy printed for John Doe”), to be typeset by hand and printed at the beginning of the book.
    Copies from 1/20 to 20/20 each include a different silk-screen print by Giulio Paolini.
    Balzac makes a shrewd and ironic critique of the bourgeois society born after the French Revolution, revealing all its ridiculousness and clumsiness. In fact, elegance belongs to few.
    Those who climb the rungs of the social ladder have to continually invent new forms of distinction. This resulting cyclical renewal is what we call fashion.



  • hamlet - shakespeare

    €2,800.00

    (publication year: 1978)

    This copy comes from the collection of the printer.

    English edition. 

    Limited edition of 80 copies typeset by hand in movable types, which include a lithograph print by Fabrizio Clerici, loose in separate folder, signed and numbered. 

    One of the best plays of all time, and among the most represented ones.

  • Canti orfici - dino campana

    €2,900.00

    With three unpublished letters by Dino Campana, and 8 linocut by Mimmo Paladino.

    Foreword by Davide Rondoni. Final note by Gigliola Tallone. 

    Limited edition of 40 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.


  • Conferenza Nobel - Pablo Neruda

    €680.00
    Limited edition of 60 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed. They include an original graphic print by Ugo Nespolo, made in stencil technique, signed and numbered.
    Edition in Italian language.
    One of the most memorable speech ever delivered by a Nobel laureate, it was held by Pablo Neruda in Stockholm at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony. In the speech Neruda recounts his escape through the Andes, an adventurous journey which becomes the metaphor of the mysterious path of Poetry.
    Neruda was awarded the Literature Nobel Prize in 1971; few months later, the first original edition of his moving speech was printed by   the Tallone Press. At that time it was printed in Spanish, while this second edition is now printed in Italian. 
  • STABAT MATER. DIES IRÆ. DEUX CONTREPOINTS

    €6,000.00

    Limited edition of 60 copies typeset by hand in movable metal types. The hand-typesetting of Gregorian chant notation make this edition an exceptional endeavor in contemporary fine printing.
    Dedicated to Gregorian Chants "Stabat Mater” and “Dies Irae”, this edition includes two inedited poems in French by Jean-Luc Nancy and six silk-screen prints by Claudio Parmiggiani, made expressly for this edition.

  • Poems - Emily Dickinson

    €5,000.00

    This is one of 40 copies which include a lithograph print by Giulio Paolini expressly made for this book, signed and numbered.

    English edition. Collection of 130 poems by the ironic, solar New England poetess, one of the greatest poetical voices of all time.

  • Leonardo da Vinci's resume

    €5,000.00

    Limited edition of 24 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    One of 24 copies with a drypoint etching by Giuseppe Penone.

    The first modern curriculum vitae, written by Leonardo da Vinci to the Duke in Milan, proves to be a document of rare effectiveness. Its ten-point structure describes a man so versatile and polymath that it would be difficult for any other candidate to compete with that.

  • De Aetna Liber - Petri Bembi

    €430.00

    Limited edition of 46 numbered copies typeset by hand in moveable types, letter by letter, and letterpress printed on cotton paper made in Sicily with the groundwater from the volcano Etna

    Etching by Walter Valentini, signed and numbered, made expressly for this edition.

    This edition printed in Latin is a tribute to the famous incunabulum printed by Aldus Manutius in 1495, which is considered to be the first modern book.
    Bembo tells about his ascent to the top of the volcano Etna, during his stay in Sicily between 1492 and 1494, where he went to perfect his knowledge of Greek. This is one of the first description of the volcano ever made. The story is the background to a series of literary-scientific considerations and learned quotations from Latin and Greek classics.