The Nonexistent Knight & the Cloven Viscount.: Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun.
by CALVINO, Italo
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Collins,, 1962. With dust jacket designs for two titles in Calvino's heraldic trilogy First UK edition, first impression, with a maquette of the dust jacket for this edition, which comprises the last two stories in Calvino's fantastical "heraldic trilogy". Also included is a draft sketch of the dust jacket for Collins's edition of the first title in the trilogy, Baron in the Trees (1959). All three were first published in Italian. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Together with maquette dust jacket, sheet of card (304 x 205) painted and lettered in purple, brown, and white, with the final design for the front panel pasted down and "Rough design 1961" written in manuscript on verso; and sketch of dust jacket for Baron in the Trees, single sheet (289 x 225 mm) with manuscript notes in blue and black ink, mounted with tape on stiff blue card (305 x 250) with tissue guard, pink order form pasted on rear filled out in pencil. Neat ownership inscription of "Penny Jones 1970" on front free endpaper. Foot of spine and one corner bumped, a few marks on top edge; spine panel lightly sunned with slight crease at foot, unclipped: a near-fine copy in like jacket. Jacket drafts with a few marks and light creases, chips to edges of Baron, tiny holes from staples to Non-Existent Knight, well-preserved.
Synopsis
Two novellas: the first, a parody of medieval knighthood told by a nun; the second, a fantasy about a nobleman bisected into his good and evil halves. “Bravura pieces... executed with brilliance and brio”(Chicago Tribune). Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 156522
- Title
- The Nonexistent Knight & the Cloven Viscount.
- Author
- CALVINO, Italo
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Collins,
- Date Published
- 1962
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Peter Harrington
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London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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