introduction italo calvino (17 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Text in English and Italian.

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Very good trade paperback. Solid binding. Minimal wear to cover. We use quality packaging materials (including boxes!) for shipping.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing in this format. Name to front free endpaper otherwise a firm, clean copy in complete dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. Book and jacket are about As New in all respects. First printing by number line. Clean and unmarked. "In 1981, noted author and Holocaust survivor Levi (1919-86; The Periodic Table) edited this anthology of 30 short excerpts from works that were especially important to him. They are basically arranged in the order he read them himself and point to four main themes, delineated in the preface: salvation through laughter, our unjust suffering, our stature as human beings, and salvation through knowledge. These four aspects of Levi's reading possessed him both as a writer and as a man. The book covers such major writers as Homer, Rabelais, Jonathan Swift, T.S. Eliot, and Thomas Mann. Science writing (e.g., Charles Darwin, Arthur C. Clarke, Ludwig Gattermann) and Jewish life in 20th-century Europe (Levi's great subject, represented by writers like Isaac Babel and Sholem Aleichem) are also represented."--Gene Shaw, New York Public Library. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Tracking number and estimated delivery date always provided. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 608 pages. 7.64x5.04x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 224 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. Frantzen, Karina Maria Puente (illustratore). 50 anv edition. 240 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.79 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 8vo. softcover. [i-xxi]. [1]. 388pp. a good copy.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 224 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 588pp. Q17704.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 632 pages. 9.40x6.20x1.60 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: Very Good -. Limited edition. Unpaginated. Square quarto [30.5cm]. Two volumes, bound in black cloth with gilt stamped lettering on the spine and front board. Illustrated paper label on the front board of each volume. Some moisture damage, with waviness to each textblock and slight warping to boards. Sporadic rubbing to corners. Both encased in publisher's clamshell which is bound in black cloth and ornamented with silkscreened paper. Clamshell is Good only - heavily sunned and a bit scuffed, with underlying boards exposed in spots. Number 2664 in a limited edition of 5,000 copies. Profusely illustrated with full color, tipped-in plates.

Hardcover. Condizione: very good +. Borbottoni, Fabio (illustratore). First edition. Square quarto (12"). 2 volumes. 148; 133, (3)pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt, mounted color plates on covers. Housed in publisher's patterned black cloth clamshelll case with paper spine label. Illustrated throughout with tipped-in color plates. Edition limited to 5000 numbered copies (this is #1483). Spine joints of clamshell case starting but still holding nicely. Bottom edge with some shelfwear. The Collection Of 120 Oil Paintings Showing The Interiors Or Exteriors Of Various Old Buildings, Monuments, Gates, Bridges & Sections Of City Of Florence & Its Surroundings Now Changed Or No Longer Existing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (588pp. ) Great selection. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 588 pages.

Fine copy in dust-wrapper First American Edition and First Edition in English.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY WILLIAM STYRON. 245 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket with some toned/foxing and soiling; small chips and several tears at edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price at bottom right; dj presented in an older mylar protector. Bluish-gray boards; toning at top and bottom edges. Text block edges toned with additional foxing to top edge. Light toning to endpapers; small stain at rear free endpaper verso's top left. Two-line ink inscription "To Carson Holloman | William Styron" upon the title page. Slight cigarette order to book which will fade with time. Binding is firm. Contents: Introduction by William Styron; "The Fisherman from Chihuahua" by Evan S. Connell, Jr.; "Last Comes the Raven" by Italo Calvino; "The Conversion of the Jews" by Philip Roth; "Stones" by Samuel Beckett; "The Hundredth Centennial" by Mac Hyman; "Death on the Avenue de Segur" by Antoine Blondin; "The Sun and the Still-born Stars" by Terry Southern; "The Acrobat" by Gerard Kornelis Van Het Reve; "The Engines of Hygeia" by John Phillips; "The Mexican Girl" by Jack Kerouac; "The Fishers" by Hughes Rudd; "In the House Where They Were Born" by Pati Hill; "At the Pool" by William Fain; "The Summer Fire" by Owen Dodson. The inscribee is Curtis Carson Holloman Jr. (1939-1991) who served on the English Department faculty at Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi. This book is among a collection of first editions from the Holloman estate with most author signatures acquired at literary events held at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

Anodized Aluminum. Condizione: New. Thiebaud, Wayne (illustratore). Limited Edition. Square, 14 by 12 inches, 164 unnumbered pages. The types are Veronese for the text, handset and in Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris, and handset Twentieth Century for display. The drawings are printed on transparent sheets of mylar in different colors of inks, each matching the color of the following sheet underlying it and the number of the chapter on the preceding leaf, such that the images are revealed only when each transparent sheet is turned over and rests on the preceding leaf, allowing the text and images to be read together. The type (on paper) and the photopolymer plates for the drawings (on mylar) were printed by letterpress. The papers, both colored and white, are Tiziano, mould-made at the Fabriano mill in Italy. The binding, made of anodized aluminum, comprises a back cover, a lid in place of a front cover, and four U-posts that form a ring binding. The posts rise from the back cover through four slots in the front cover and are held in place by an aluminium rod locking pin that slips through the loops. The "spine" made by the left edge of the front lid bears the title in outline. Edition of 400 copies, plus 26 lettered copies hors de commerce, signed by the artist. Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was the premier Italian fiction writer of the twentieth century. Gore Vidal, in the "New York Review of Books", singled out "Invisible Cities" as his finest novel: "In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo - Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. The mood is sunset. Prospero is holding up for the last time his magic wand. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire, of his cities, of himself." When a speaking engagement brought translator William Weaver to California, he was honored at a dinner at the Press, where Hoyem and Ketcham invited him to write a new introduction to his admired translation. The artist Wayne Thiebaud, in his first meeting with Hoyem on this project, said "Let's made the invisible visible. You'll figure it out." Please note that while this copy is in fine condition overall, the aluminum case shows minimal signs of having been opened at some point. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.