BASSANI, Giorgio. Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini. Torino: Einaudi 1962. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Bassani on the front flyleaf to William Weaver, the English translator of The Garden of the Finzi Continis and Bassani's longtime friend. The film adaptation of this novel, directed by Vittorio de Sica, won an Academy Award in 1971, the year in which this copy was inscribed. 8vo, original pale green cloth, dust jacket. Slightly cocked, otherwise a near fine copy in a lightly soiled dust jacket, slightly darkened along the spine panel