Cuttlefish Bones (Ossi di seppia)

There is no U.S. book-club (BOMC-type) edition of the Italian first to worry about; the collecting confusion here is edition precedence, not a club reprint. The real traps are later Italian printings passed off as the first: the 1928 Fratelli Ribet (Turin) SECOND edition (450 numbered copies plus 22 on handmade paper, enlarged with six added lyrics) and the 1931 R. Carabba (Lanciano) THIRD edition (with Gargiulo preface, a Scipione-illustrated wrapper, important variants, and genuine copies carrying Montale's autograph "E.M." initials) — neither is the Gobetti first. Reprints of the Einaudi collected/Meridiani text and modern anastatic facsimiles of the 1925 Gobetti also circulate; verify the "Piero Gobetti Editore, Torino, 1925" imprint, the Casorati fregio, the ~100-page collation, and the original tan wrappers rather than trusting the 1925 date alone. On the English side, the common trap is treating the 1992/93 Arrowsmith/Norton edition as the first English — Mazza's 1983 Mosaic Press book precedes it as a complete rendering.