CALVINO, ITALO
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York: 1981
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Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 260 pp. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Originally published in 1979 as "Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore" by Giulio Einaudi Editore (where Calvino was editorial staff). Calvino won the Italian literary award Premio Feltrinelli. Black star to lower board and lower panel of dust jacket. Very good in original yellow quarter-cloth over red boards and very good pictorial dust jacket, with some dampstaining particularly on verso. Some soiling to extremities, however text bright, unmarked and square.
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