A fine, private press, edition of Dylan Thomas’s well-known Poem in October, translated into Italian, chosen becuse of Franco Riva’s high regard for Thomas’s work. Riva was a librarian and writer on book history in Verona, who in some ten years from 1954 also produced many finely printed volumes on his private press. When his friend Giovanni Mardesteig was asked to contribute to a new edition of “Il Libro Italiano 1800-1965” he declined, but suggested Franco Riva.