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ITALO CALVINO. THE PATH TO THE NEST OF SPIDERS. COLLINS, LONDON, 1956.
Price: US$279.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST PRINTING. THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL UNPRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 192 PAGES. SOME MINOR EDGE WEAR TO JACKET WITH LOSS AT TOP OF SPINE & FRONT BOTTOM CORNER, TEXT TO CLOTH SPINE SLIGHTLY DULL, PRIVATE BOOKPLATE TO INNER FRONT BOARD, LIGHT BROWNING TO ENDPAPERS, LIGHT FOXING TO PAGE FORE-EDGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
CALVINO, Italo.. Path to the Nest of Spiders.. Collins, London, 1956.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The author's first book (a novel) and first to be translated into English. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. First British edition. Light dust soiling to page edges, some fading to gilt lettering on spine, else near fine in a near fine (minor edge wear to spine ends and corners, two short closed tears and trace dust soiling to rear panel) dust jacket. An attractive and fairly well preserved copy of this scarce book. B000PWIZS2
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is the first English-language edition of Calvino's first book, translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun and inscribed by Colquhoun in the year of publication. Tiny corner bumps; a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with slight spine fading, light chipping to corners and crown, and a small creased edge tear. Colquhoun also translated or co-translated several of Calvino's later books, such as The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Nonexistent Knight, The Watcher, Difficult Loves, Our Ancestors, and Adam, One Afternoon. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Gouache on artboard, with the image measuring 9.5 X 12 inches and the board measuring 10.5 X 15 inches; signed by artist Trevor Denning near lower right corner. Brief pencilled notation regarding measurments on the lower margin, with the publisher, author, and translator's names overlaid and mounted to the piece on thick cardstock. The printers' instruction sheet for Collins is handwritten on pink stock, affixed on verso. Original dustjacket artwork for the First British Edition of Calvino's first novel. The novel, told from a child's perspective, paints the trauma of war torn Italy using a variety of impressive characters, namely a young boy and his teenage sister, who are depicted on the jacket. The only artwork we have seen associated with one of Calvino's books, and quite dazzling in comparison to its American counterpart.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.