Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino: Books, First Edition (12 results)

Condition: New. 1997. 01st Edition. Paperback. Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120. . . . . .

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Kublai Khan and Marco Polo get talking; translated by William Weaver. Pictorial wrappers. Foxing to extremities, else very good. book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. A Harvest/HBJ Book. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. Very Good Book. First Harvest/HBJ Edition as stated. Translated from the Italian by William Wever. Trade Paperback with glossy wrappers. Covers show age tanning, edgewear, foxing, indentations, heavy rubbing, scratches, shelfwear, and soiling to all extremities. Back cover very lightly wavy at bottom edge near spine. Rubber stamp from previous seller to inside of back cover. Spine uncracked. All edges of textblock show age tanning, foxing, and shelfwear. Front and back hinges lightly cracked with binding glue exposed. Binding tight and square. Pages show edge tanning and spots of foxing but are otherwise unmarked. Pages very lightly wavy at bottom edge near spine. 165 pages. 5-1/4 X 8.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.95.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor edgewear to lightly rubbed dj w/ light chipping to head and tail of spine and corners as well as two creases to front inner flap. Small bumps to top and bottom edges of back board w/ two p.o. stamps to ffep, otherwise clean and tight. $6.50 price intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition stated. No wear to the binding. No distortion from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. Small, faint fluid stain to the top of the text block. Previous owner's bookplate on the front flyleaf. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. The dust jacket priced at $6.50 (not clipped) shows light edge wear. No sun fading. DJ in an archival protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Translated by William Weaver. With a laid-in holograph postcard signed by Calvino to scholar Albert Howard Carter. Good in a Very Good Fine jacket, unclipped ($6.50), rubbed at the surface and edges, a few small chips at the head of the spine. Quarter grey buckram with black paper on the boards, bumped and rubbed at the edges and corners. Bound with a forward lean and some reading wear, annotations from Calvino scholar Albert Howard Carter throughout, demonstrating the effort required to puzzle together the order of the book. Calvino's novel in the form of a time traveling conversation between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo. Neblua Award nominee in 1975.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Brand new copy.

8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured illustrations throughout and printed endpapers; pictorial boards, gilt back, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case blocked in gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [165] pp. Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich First Edition 1974 Jacket design by Arnold Skolnick Calvino's fantastical catalogue of impossible cities narrated by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. Originally published in Italy as Le città invisibili in 1972, the book won the Feltrinelli prize, and was nominated for the Nebula Award for best novel in 1975. "Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which "has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be," the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating fine details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in metal box. Illus. by Wayne Thiebaud (illustrator). 1st. Folio, Limited to 400 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator on the page opposite to the first drawing, Translated from the Italian & introduced by William Weaver. The paper, both colored and white, is Italian Tiziano, mould-made at Fabriano mill. The types are Veronese (Monotype and handset) and Twentieth Century ( handset). The type (on paper) and the photopolymer plates for the drawings (on mylar) were printed by letterpress. The book is bound in an anodized aluminum ring binding with U-posts, allowing the leaves to be turned over in sequence. A back cover supports four U-posts, a lid has four slots through which the U-posts rise, and a locking pin of aluminum rod slips through the hoops securing the lid to the base. The binding was fabricated by Paul Sheet Metal Works in San Francisco. The titling is screen-printed onto a side of the lid. Includes the original cardboard mailing carton.