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Adam, One Afternoon & Other Stories
by Italo Calvino
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Collins, London, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 21 short stories translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright. Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. This collection of playful, deadly fables, the author's second title to be published in English, is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story - 'The Argentine Ant' - moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 190 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. White titles spine. black cloth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; Italian Literature; Fables; Italy; Fiction. Inventory No: 3431. .
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3431
- Title
- Adam, One Afternoon & Other Stories
- Author
- Italo Calvino
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Fiction/Fables/Italian Literature/Short Stories/Italo Calvino/Italian Short Stories Fiction; Short Stories; Italian Literature; Fables; Italy; Fiction. Unbranded Italo Calvino Adam, One Afternoon & Other Stories
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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