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1999CNRD08San Francisco: Arion Press 1999. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Thiebaud Wayne. Number 147 of 400 numbered copies for sale square folio size 164 pp. signed by Wayne Thiebaud in original publisher's shipping box. "Italo Calvino regarded by many as the greatest master of Italian fiction in this century first published this work in 1972 as Le citta invisibili. A tale mixing fantasy reality and philosophy it recounts a long conversation between a young Marco Polo and an aging Kublai Khan. The book was lauded by Gore Vidal as more than a novel more like a "meditation or poem" and "perhaps his Calvino's most beautiful work". William Weaver who translated it from the Italian into English considers that among his translations "it is the one I reread with the most pleasure". <br/><br/>With artwork by Wayne Thiebaud b. 1920 an American painter associated with the Pop Art movement who is known for among other things his urban and landscape paintings drawing influence from artists like Richard Diebenkorn and Edward Hopper. With a career that has spanned decades Thiebaud is one of America's most prominent contemporary artists.<br/><br/>For this work Thiebaud contributed twelve drawings with the idea that the images of cities and objects remain invisible until the reader takes action. To realize this concept Andrew Hoyem designed the book with the drawings printed on clear plastic in different colors of inks each matching the color of the following sheet. The images are revealed only when the transparent sheet is turned back onto the preceding page a white sheet with printed text." <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Bound in an anodized aluminum ring binding with U-posts back cover supports four U-posts lid has four slots through which the U-posts rise and a locking pin of aluminum rod slips through the hoops securing lid to base mylar endpapers 12 illustrations monotype and hand-set Veronese type both colored and white Italian Tiziano mould-made Fabriano paper folio 14" x 12" 164 pp. limited to 400 numered copies for sale this being number 147 26 lettered copies were printed for private distribution signed by the artist. Volume contained in the original publisher's white shipping box; we opened it in order to catalogue the book. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: The aluminum binding clean and free of wear internally bright and crisp and free of prior owner markings; a fine copy like new. The publisher's box near fine with modest wear and markings. <br/><br/>___CITATION: Arion Press Catalogue 57. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Arion Press hardcover books
199955861San Francisco: The Arion Press 1999. Signed Limited Edition of 400 numbered copies signed by the artist. Thiebaud contributed twelve drawings with the idea that the images of cities and objects remain invisible until the reader takes action. Andrew Hoyem designed the book with drawings printed on clear plastic in different color inks each matching the color of the following sheets. The images are revealed only when the transparent plastic sheet is turned back onto the preceding page. With the original promotional materials in original mailing envelope. Includes the large fold-out prospectus a letter to subscribers and a large promotional color photograph. An interesting book in a unique binding. Folio bound in an anodized aluminum four-ring metal binding allowing the pages to be flipped as in a regular binder. An aluminum rod slips through hoops on the cover and securing binding. Illustrated with twelve drawings of sites and artifacts by Wayne Thiebaud. Text by Italo Calvino. Translated from the Italian with a new introduction by William Weaver. Fine condition. Postage Billed At Cost! The Arion Press unknown books
199922470San Francisco: Arion Press 1999. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. aluminum binding with locking pin. Fine. 36 x 34 cm. Limited edition copy 114 of 400 signed by Wayne Thiebaud. Types are Veronese and Twentieth Century on Tiziano mould-made paper by Fabriano. Thiebaud color drawings from photo-polymer plates printed on mylar backed by color stock in same color as the drawing enhance the dramatic contrast. The original work published in English by Helen Wolff at Harcourt Brace. Laid-in the original publisher prospectus front cover printed and illustrated in blue and black with laminated pictorial photo in color of cover and some contents. Arion Press hardcover books
1999140940753San Francisco: The Arion Press 1999. Near Fine. Limited edition. Copy #333 of 400 signed by artist in pencil. 164 pp with12 photopolymer prints printed on Mylar with letterpress after drawings by Thiebaud. Aluminum four ring metal binding with sliding pin. Light shelfwear and rubbing to metal binding else Fine with contents bright and clean. A uniquely bound and unusual edition of the Italian author's fantastical deconstruction of The Travels of Marco Polo. The Arion Press unknown books
199927912San Francisco: The Arion Press 1999 1999. First Arion Press edition one of 400 copies signed by Thiebaud. Aluminum binder slightly rubbed; fine copy. Aluminum ring binder 14 x 12 inches 164 pages. 12 photopolymer prints printed on Mylar with letterpress after drawings by Thiebaud. ¶ An ingenuously designed and handsomely produced illustrated edition of Calvino's famous novel centering on an imaginary dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublia Khan and their descriptions of the cities of the past. <br/><br/> San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1999 unknown books
198144082New York: Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich 1981. First edition in English of Calvino's avant-garde masterpiece. Octavo original half. Signed by Italo Calvino on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Rubin Pfeffer. Jacket photograph by Benn Mitchell. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten each with a different plot style ambience and author and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures known and unknown alive and extinct through which two readers a male and a female pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another. In a 1985 interview with Gregory Lucente Calvino stated If on a winter's night a traveler was "clearly" influenced by the writings of Vladimir Nabokov. The book was also influenced by the author's membership in the literary group Oulipo. The structure of the text is said to be an adaptation of the structural semiology of A.J. Greimas. In a letter written to critic Lucio Lombardo Radice dated November 13 1979 Italo Calvino: letters 1941-1985; Princeton University Press 2013 p. 501 Calvino mentions Bulgakov Kawabata Tanizaki Rulfo Arguedas Borges and Chesterton as having influenced in various ways the narrative style of the ten stories that comprise the book. The Telegraph included the novel in a list of "100 novels everyone should read" in 2009 describing it as a "playful postmodernist puzzle." Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich unknown books
1959140940742New York: Random House 1959. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Signed by Italo Calvino and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's decoratively stamped brown cloth. Near Fine with slight fading to the spine. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket spine toned and with a closed tear at the top of the front spine joint small interior chip to spine and front flap fold. Random House unknown books
1984111048New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers 1984. First edition of this classic collection of short stories by Calvino. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to editor Irene Skolnick in the year of publication "For Irene Italo Calvino N.Y. Nov. 14. 1984." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Louise Fili. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright. An exceptional association. Difficult Loves was immediately praised upon publication as tales of love and loneliness in which Calvino blends reality and illusion. "The quirkiness and grace of the writing the originality of the imagination at work.and a certain lovable nuttiness make this collection well worth reading" Margaret Atwood. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers hardcover books
195921744New York: Random House 1959. First American edition. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. Brown cloth a fine copy in lightly worn dust jacket designed by Georg Salter. Inscribed and signed by Calvino on his first visit to New York "a Vera che ha afatto arrampicare il Barone sulle piante americane con gratitudine" dated New York 12 November 1959. Later in the library of the writer Henry Miller whose manuscript translation of the inscription on a small piece of paper laid in reads: "To Vera who made the Baron climb American trees with gratitude." <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
1981140940697New York: Targ Editions 1981. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. One of a limited 250 copies signed by Italo Calvino. Contains ten pieces all which feature Mr. Palomar seven of which would later appear in the 1983 complete Italian and the 1985 English editions; the remaining three have not been reprinted since. Bound in publisher's original black paper-covered boards over marbled spine cloth; in glassine wrap reproducing the frontis woodcut of Calvino printed in white; errata slip laid in. A Fine copy with slight offsetting to front board from the white print of glassine. Glassine is Near Fine with light wear and soiling. <br /> <br /> This is the thirteenth of twenty five books published by William Targ from his home in Greenwich Village during his retirement from publishing. Well-respected in the publishing field Targ was best-known for publishing The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Designed and printed by hand at the Grenfell Press on Fabriano Roma an all-rag handmade sheet. With woodcuts by L. Grenfelli. A beautiful production. Targ Editions unknown books
198422051New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers 1984. First edition of this classic collection of short stories by Calvino. Octavo original half cloth. Boldly signed by Italo Calvino on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Louise Fili. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright. Difficult Loves was immediately praised upon publication as tales of love and loneliness in which Calvino blends reality and illusion. "The quirkiness and grace of the writing the originality of the imagination at work.and a certain lovable nuttiness make this collection well worth reading" Margaret Atwood. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers hardcover books
1984041314Milan: Garzanti 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Slight wear and foxing to original thick wraps. First edition of Calvino's late collection of meditations on the bizazrre the disquieting and the fantastic - inscribed to author journalist and psychoanalyst Contardo Calligaris and dated 30.10.84. Touching on the Codex Seraphinianus Roland Barthes and Calvino's travels both real and imagined. Translated into English in 2013 as Collection of Sand. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Antiquarian & Rare. Inscribed by Author. Inventory No: 041314. <br/><br/> Garzanti paperback books
1956023168London: Collins. 1956. This is the first English-language edition of Calvino's first book translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun and inscribed by Colquhoun in the year of publication. Tiny corner bumps; a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with slight spine fading light chipping to corners and crown and a small creased edge tear. Colquhoun also translated or co-translated several of Calvino's later books such as The Cloven Viscount The Baron in the Trees The Nonexistent Knight The Watcher Difficult Loves Our Ancestors and Adam One Afternoon. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Collins hardcover books
1980311658Torino: Einaudi 1980. viii 323 3 pp. 8vo. Original wrappers with Saul Steinberg illustration on front. Minor shelfwear near fine. viii 323 3 pp. 8vo. Inscribed to his agent and publisher. Inscribed on the title page "for Roz and Bill the most boring book by Italo". Roslyn Targ 1925-2017 was Calvino's literary agent; her husband William Targ 1907-1999 was an editor and then head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint Targ Editions which published a collection of Calvino stories under the title "The Silent Mr. Palomar" 1981. An excellent association. Einaudi unknown books
195610352London: Collins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. B000PWIZS2 . The author's first book a novel and first to be translated into English. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. First British edition. Light dust soiling to page edges some fading to gilt lettering on spine else near fine in a near fine minor edge wear to spine ends and corners two short closed tears and trace dust soiling to rear panel dust jacket. An attractive and fairly well preserved copy of this scarce book. . Collins hardcover books
1955311Calvino Italo. Photograph 13.5 cm x 8.5 cm. Signed on the back in ink as a young man. No date ca. 1955. Fine. Fotografia firmata al verso inchiostro senza data. books
1962150598N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actress Sophia Loren on the set of the 1962 film leaning on a camera with cinematographer Otello Martelli standing just behind her. With the stamp of Pierluigi agency on the verso. <br/><br/>A four-episode anthology exploring different aspects of morality and love directed by Federico Fellini Vittorio De Sica Luchino Visconti and Mario Monicelli. Loren features in De Sica's episode "La Riffa" The Raffle about a shy lottery winner entitled to one night with a wily buxom carnival manager. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Rome.<br/><br/>7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1962151316N.p.: N.p. 1962. Two vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1962 film one showing director Luchino Visconti and actress Romy Schneider the other showing director Federico Fellini shooting with a Bolex camera while a crew member adjusts actress Anita Ekberg's hair. Both photos with the stamp of still photographer Paul Ronald on the verso. <br/><br/>A four-episode anthology exploring different aspects of morality and love directed by Federico Fellini Vittorio De Sica Luchino Visconti and Mario Monicelli. Fellini's episode "Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio" follows a middle-aged do-gooder's increasingly delirious obsession with a woman Ekberg featured on a provocative billboard. Schneider appears in Visconti's episode "Il Lavoro" which follows a wealthy well-known couple's dissolving marriage after the husband is caught by the Italian press visiting prostitutes.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Rome. <br/><br/>9 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1962149682N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1962 film showing director Luchino Visconti adjusting the hair of actress Romy Schneider.<br/><br/>A four-episode anthology exploring different aspects of morality and love directed by Federico Fellini Vittorio De Sica Luchino Visconti and Mario Monicelli. Schneider features in Visconti's episode "Il Lavoro" which follows a wealthy well-known couple's dissolving marriage after the husband is caught by the Italian press visiting prostitutes.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Rome.<br/><br/>9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
195718793Boston: Beacon Press 1957. First American Edition. Octavo. Green linen over boards; dustjacket; 145pp. Tight attractive copy with pencil erasure to front endpaper and light soiling to upper edge of text block; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper unclipped but lightly soiled on rear panel slightly darkened on spine panel; Very Good Plus. Quite nice copy of the first of the author's books to be published in America. Beacon Press unknown books
1957000885Boston: Beacon Press 1957. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First US edition of his first book. Near fine copy with light wear to lower spine end otherwise quite nice in about near fine unclipped jacket with some light chipping to upper spine. Overall one of the nicer copies I have seen of this book. <br/><br/> Beacon Press hardcover books
196818791New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1968. First American Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards; dustjacket; 153pp. Tight fine copy with turquoise top-stain just a touch faded. In original dustwrapper clean and unfaded but price-clipped and with some light overall rubbing. A nice copy. Harcourt, Brace & World unknown books
1962144345Rome: Cineriz 1962. Original program for the Italian-French film undated but issued upon the 1962 premiere. Unfolds to three panels of film synopsis and credits and full-color film stills of Loren Ekberg Schneider and others. <br/><br/>A four episode anthology exploring morality and love. Working-class lovers Renzo and Luciana in a secret marriage Solinas Gilioli a billboard of a blonde woman provocatively selling milk Ekberg De Filippo the wife of a lascivious count struggles with her own independnce Schneider Milian and a buxom carnival operator in need of cash Loren Giuliani. Solid composition and editing sustain an encompassing and hilarious portrayal of female mystique. <br/><br/>9 x 12.5 inches folding. Very Good plus light foxing and brief curling folds slightly askew. Cineriz unknown books
195710306London: Collins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. The author's second book to be translated into English. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright. First British edition. Hint of a spine slant else at least very good in a very good short closed tear at the crown of the spine age darkening to spine rear panel and edges price clipped dust jacket. A relatively well preserved copy of this scarce book. . Collins hardcover books
1962158439New York: Random House 1962. Octavo cloth. First U.S. edition. Two ironic tales the first a parody of chivalry and knighthood the second a grisly tale set in the late Middle Ages of a man neatly cut in half by a cannon shot during his first battle against the Turks who returns to his lands in Austria -- literary half a man -- and becomes the personification of evil. When the other half of the Viscount miraculously appears on the scene and tries to undo the damage a weird conflict develops. Barron ed. Fantasy and Horror 1999 5-56. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with light wear along top and bottom edges of the front panel. Jacket priced $3.95. A very nice copy. #158439 Random House unknown books
