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CALVINO, Italo.. Cosmicomics.. Jonathan Cape,, London:, 1969.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. First British edition. Trace foxing on endpapers, else very good in a very good (ring stain on front panel, foxing) dust jacket. ; 153 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Calvino (Italo).. Cosmicomics. Jonathan Cape,, 1969.
Price: US$168.12 + shipping
Description: Fine copy in fine, unblemished dust-wrapper
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Calvino, Italo. Cosmicomics. Jonathan Cape, 1969.
Price: US$172.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 153pp. A well preserved copy of this book, translated from the Italian Le Cosmicomiche as a first UK edition. Dust wrapper not price clipped. Slight soiling to the rear of the wrapper. Light shelf wear to the top edge of the wrapper, mainly at the head of the spine and a faint outline of a paper clip mark to the wrapper along the top edge. There is a paper clip crease mark to the front end paper with a little ghosting to the half title page where the compliment slip was previously attached. Light rubbing to the tail of the spine, hidden under the wrapper. Otherwise the book is fresh, clean and tight, being in very good condition.
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Calvino, Italo. Cosmicomics. Jonathan Cape, 1969.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Gift inscription. DJ in archival cover.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Calvino, Italo. Cosmicomics. Jonathan Cape. First English edition, London, 1969.
Price: US$198.51 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Twelve stories, ten narrated by Qwfwfq. Try pronouncing the narrator's name. Fine in dustwrapper designed, appropriately for the period, by Om Tentacle.
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Italo Calvino. Cosmicomics. Jonathan Cape, 1969.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: CALVINO, Italo. Cosmicomics. London: Jonathan Cape. 1969. First British edition. An excellent example of Calvinos postmodernism does science fiction history of the creation of the universe, told through twelve wonderful short stories, usually narrated by the unpronounceable Qfwfq. Reading it, infinity becomes momentarily acceptable to the finite mind and the reader glimpses his own infinitesimal significance. I highlight the momentariness. A fine book in a near fine unclipped dust jacket, with a small nick to spine foot and a little fading to the rear panel of the glorious wraparound jacket.
Seller: Deep Neutral Books, York, ENGLA, United Kingdom
Calvino Italo. COSMICOMICS. Jonathan Cape, 1969.
Price: US$257.78 + shipping
Description: fine hardcover copy in fine, not price clipped, dustwrapper 1st edition. In the beginning, there was. Qfwfq? Italo Calvino apparently thought so -- his magical-realist fantasy "Cosmicomics" is one of the two best novels he ever wrote.
Seller: Fantastic Literature Limited, Rayleigh, ESSEX, United Kingdom
Calvino, Italo. Cosmicomics. Jonathan Cape, 1969.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Description: Cosmicomics, Jonathan Cape, 1969, first edition, fine in like color pictorial dust-wrapper. From the library of Forrest J. Ackerman. A gift from fellow author William Temple as noted on a typed slip of paper laid in.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Italo Calvino. Cosmicomics. Jonathan Cape, London, 1969.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Translated by the great William Weaver, this first British edition is particularly elusive. Here, theories of the creation of the world are translated into stories, mathematical symbols and characters. Published by Jonathan Cape in 1969. An excellent copy.
Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom