VAGHE STELLE DELL'ORSA.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square, the contents clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which has a couple of short closed tears. The script and a history of the filming, illustrated with stills of the the 1965 Visconti film "Sandra of the Thousand Delights" (released as "Sandra" in the US and "Of These Thousand Pleasures" in the UK).

Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front free endpaper "A Don Gonzales / molto cordialmente / Luchino Visconti / Roma 1965". Italian stage and film director Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) is considered one of the founding fathers of the Italian neorealism film movement. As his career progressed, however, he produced more lavish films that spanned a range of historical periods. More than just a neorealist director, Visconti was one of the greatest international film directors that emerged from the post-war Italian cinema.