Pablo Neruda - La coppa di sangue - 1997

First Italian edition of La coppa di sangue by Pablo Neruda, a collection of prose texts by Pablo Neruda, an unpublished work by the Chilean poet published for the first time by the publisher Alberto Tallone in Italy in 1968 in the author's original language, Spanish.
Italian version and note by Giuseppe Bellini. The last appendix - Farewell to Tallone - is a moving farewell to Tallone, who had died during the work’s creation and to whom Neruda was very fond.

Softcover in-4° with flaps, cream cloth binding with black titles on the spine and on the front cover. Case and slipcase in blue editorial cardboard.
Edition hand-assembled, printed with Caslon types on ivory Magnani paper.
Copy No. 103 of a print run of 300 copies, lacking the pochoir by Ugo Nespolo present in the first 50 copies, numbered and signed by the artist.

Attached is a loose sheet with the reproduction of a letter to Tallone from the poet (Isla Negra, 1968).

Dedication to Sguardia signed by Bianca Tallone — widow of the publisher — dated November ’97.