Family – Chocolates for Breakfast

$New York City, early 1960\'s. Pamela on the Washington Mews near Washington Square Park. ; Adam Kanarek reading Kultura magazine$

Historical Editions

Since its publication in 1956, Chocolates for Breakfast has been translated into a dozen languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, German, Japanese and Swedish. It was a bestseller in the US, Italy and France. In the US, the Bantam paperback edition went through 11 printings and sold over a million copies in the 1950s and '60s. The 18th edition of the Italian translation, Cioccolata a Colazione, lists the total number of copies sold in Italy as of 1966 at 408,000. Cioccolata remained continuously in print in Italy through the early 2000s.