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1932 · 30397 — New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1932. Very Good -/Very Good -. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1932. First American Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth terracotta topstain in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 327pp. Fragile jacket quite chipped and worn with loss at spine crown touching text spine panel rather faded ragged splitting to front flap fold general dust-soil spine cocked boards scuffed with exposure to spine ends and corners cloth margins faded foxing to endpapers; overall a Good to Very Good copy.<br /> <br /> The author's first novel a runaway bestseller in his native Italy upon its publication under the title "Gli Indifferenti" when the author was just twenty-five years old. A precocious examination of the unraveling of familial morality The Indifferent Ones spans the two days in which a young woman decides to take her married mother's lover as her lover as well. No wonder the first print run sold out so quickly. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown