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CALVINO, Italo. The non-existent Knight & The cloven Viscount. Collins, London, 1962.

Price: US$42.24 + shipping

Description: Sound copy in tight binding; blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine; tide mark on bottom half of boards, front, back & spine; mirrored on verso of dust jacket - barely obvious once jacket in place. Name inked on front free end paper; light scattered foxing present; jacket not price clipped; rather faded on spine & a little stained on rear panel. Used - Good. Good hardback in dust jacket

Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

CALVINO,ITALO. The Non-Existent Knight & The Cloven Viscount. collins london 1962, 1962.

Price: US$57.37 + shipping

Description: first edition in english 191pp VG+ (blue cloth,spine and upper/lower edges v.sl.sunned,prelims.and edges sl.foxed,tight) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and mod.soiled w.2 round white stickers to front cover and small blue sticker to spine,unevenly sunned,minor wear to extrems.)

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

CALVINO, Italo.. The Non-Existent Knight and the Cloven Viscount. FIRST EDITION. Translated from Italian by Archibald Colquhoun.. , 1962.

Price: US$77.97 + shipping

Description: William Collins Sons and Company. London. 1962. First edition. Hardback in DW. Library sticker to front endpaper and minor shelfwear to exremities. A clean and sound copy with minor water damage to back of wrapper, slight fading to spine and creasing to wrappers edges.

Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom

Calvino, Italo. The Non-Existent Knight and The Cloven Viscount. Collins. First English edition, London, 1962.

Price: US$100.78 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The second and third volumes in the Our Ancestors trilogy. Extremities evenly tanned. Very good in dustwrapper.

Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia

Calvino, Italo. The Non-Existent Knight and The Cloven Viscount. Collins. First English edition, London, 1962.

Price: US$134.38 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Uncorrected proof of the first English edition of vols. 2 and 3 of the Our Ancestors trilogy, or companions to The Baron in the Trees. Plain wrappers with label. Annotations to label, base of spine chipped, types mark on front free endpaper, prelims marked, short tear to p.106 not affecting text. Good.

Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia

CALVINO, ITALO. The Non-Existent Knight. Collins, London, 1962.

Price: US$151.63 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gilt lettered blue paper boards. 1st UK edition. Book in very good to near fine condition. Bright and clean throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, in very good condition. In jacket protector. An excellent copy.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

CALVINO, ITALO. THE NON-EXISTENT KNIGHT & THE CLOVEN VISCOUNT. LONDON COLLINS PUB 1962., 1962.

Price: US$157.50 + shipping

Description: NEAR FINE IN A NEAR FINE D.J. TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE WITH SOME MODEST TANNING OF THE REAR PANEL, VERY SLIGHT COLOR-FADE TO THE SPINE PANEL, A SHORT TEAR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FRONT PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.

CALVINO, ITALO. THE NON-EXISTENT KNIGHT & THE CLOVEN VISCOUNT. LONDON COLLINS PUB 1962., 1962.

Price: US$190.00 + shipping

Description: NEAR FINE IN A NEAR FINE D.J. TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT OTHER THAN A SLIGTH BUMP TO THE TOP FRONT FORE-EDGE CORNER, AND SOME VERY MODEST FOXING TO THE PRELIMINARY AND TERMINAL LEAVES. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE WITH A TRACE OF CORNER WEAR, SLIGHT FADE AND RUB TO THE SPINE PANEL, FAINT FOXING TO THE REAR PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.

Italo Calvino. The Non-Existent Knight & the Cloven Viscount. Collins, London, 1962.

Price: US$194.93 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun, this is the first British edition of a great pair of stories. In the first, a knight in the army of Charlemagne has no body beneath his armour, and proceeds with his battles and love affairs with the force of our personality. First thus, in Fine condition, and published by Collins, London in 1962.

Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom

italo calvino. the non-existent knight. collins, london, 1962.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: As new never opened, has a yellow paper wrapped around book "originally 16/- now 6/-.

Seller: broken wing books, blaine, MN, U.S.A.

CALVINO, Italo.. The Nonexistent Knight & the Cloven Viscount. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun.. London: Collins, 1962, 1962.

Price: US$617.28 + shipping

Description: 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.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

CALVINO, Italo. Translated from the Italian by: COLQUHOUN, Archibald. [Signed by author].. THE NON-EXISTENT KNIGHT And The Cloven Viscount.. London: Collins, 1962., 1962.

Price: US$1163.09 + shipping

Description: Signed copy, 8vo., pp.191, blue hardcover, gilt; author?s signed inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to fore-edges and endpapers, some mustiness, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has slight chipping to extremities, small closed tear to front upper edge, and some toning and foxing to rear panel, overall very good, and now in a protective cover.

Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United Kingdom