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Copyright © 2013 by Adelphi Edizioni S.p.A. Milano

Translation copyright © 2015 by Richard Dixon

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Originally published in Italian in 2013 by Adelphi Edizioni, Italy, as L’impronta dell’editore

English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First American edition, 2015

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Calasso, Roberto.

    [Impronta dell’editore. English]

    The art of the publisher / Roberto Calasso; translated by Richard Dixon.

        pages    cm

    ISBN 978-0-374-18823-8 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-374-71183-2 (e-book)

    1.  Publishers and publishing.   2.  Publishers and publishing—History.   3.  Adelphi (Firm)—History.   4.   Calasso, Roberto—Career in publishing.   5.  Publishers and publishing—Biography.   I.  Dixon, Richard, translator.   II.  Title.

Z278.C2813 2015

070.5—dc23

2015010108

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