Author: Edith Templeton
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Readers Book Club, 1955

Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Cloth/boards in good condition, slight rubbing to title on spine, tanning throughout, binding sound.

The Surprise of Cremona by Edith Templeton is a travel memoir first published in 1954. The book recounts Templeton’s personal travels through northern Italian towns — including Cremona, Parma, Mantua, Ravenna, Urbino, and Arezzo — in the early 1950s. Written with wit and sharp observation, it blends travel experiences, cultural insights, architectural and artistic impressions, and Templeton’s distinctive, often humorous commentary on Italian life and places