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Calvino, Italo. The Path To the Nest of Spiders. Beacon Press, 1957.
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Description: Boston. 1957. Beacon Press. 1st American Edition. Small Bump On Top Rear Boards & Some Slight Corner Wear,Otherwise Very Good. No Dustjacket . Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. 145 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Italy . FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is the story of Pin, the cobbler's apprentice, who grows up in one of the ancient fortress-towns of the Ligurian coast in the period of World War II when the partisans are fighting back from the hills, and German soldiers are quartered in the town. Pin is a skinny kid who must keep his wits sharp in order to live. With the other boys who have families, he is an outcast: he has no family except a prostitute sister. Pin therefore is forced to take refuge in the world of grown-ups' in the smoky violet air of the tavern,' where he hears talk which he can imitate - to get obscene laughter - but cannot understand. He sings sentimental songs and learns how to insult and to curse - but all the while he yearns to be one of the gang, to go off with a band of young companions to whom he could show the place where spiders make their nests, or with whom he could have battles among the bam- boos in the river-bed.' How he joins the partisans and makes common cause with another outcast - one of the strangest combinations since OF MICE AND MEN - is part of the story; but chiefly this is a tender-tough portrait of a boy living in a world he never made, and never would have made; and it is told with absolutely no sentimentalism. In fact, Sean O'Faolain finds that the author has something of the subjective response to nature of Pavese, and the hardness and innocence of Vittorini.' If this story does not grip American hearts in a way that no reader will soon forget, we are going out of the prophesying business. inventory #16488 Small Bump On Top Rear Boards & Some Slight Corner Wear,Otherwise Very Good. No Dustjacket
Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Translated from the Italian. 145 p.p. Green cloth boards with black stamped lettering to spine. Sunning to spine and edges, a few small stains, bumping and rubbing to spine ends and corners. Light foxing to top edge of text block. Sticker ghost to head of front pastedown. Roughly cut edges, some small chips from cutting not affecting text. This is Italian author Italo Calvino's first novel, first published by Einaudi in 1947.
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
CALVINO, Italo. The Path to the Spider's Nest. Beacon Press, NY, 1957.
Price: US$35.20 + shipping
Description: Bound in green cloth, stamped in black. Tight, clean copy. The first edition of the author's first book -- lacking the dust jacket -- but the rear flap and the rear panel is laid in. 143 pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Calvino, Italo. The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Beacon Press, 1957.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (Originally published, 1947) Light blue cloth, top tips slightly bumped, all tips badly worn, tiny very slight surface wear spot on top front edge, light threading and wear along bottom front edge next to spine and bottom front tip, significant surface wear along top 1/2" of top back edge, light wear and threading at bottom back edge, tip and next to spine, some browning to inside covers and adjacent end papers. DJ color-illustrated, very slight wear and tiny tears along front edges, several tears up to 3/4" at spine top left, thin chip with slight wear at spine bottom edge, two tiny tears and very tiny tears at top back edge, two heavy creases near top back, two 1/4" but wide tears at bottom back tip and near middle of bottom back edge, thumb-sized surface tear up from bottom back edge. Fair DJ/Near Good book.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Calvino, Italo. The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Beacon Press, 1957.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Good hardcover, missing dust jacket. Front free endpaper corner clipped, prior owner's name in pen. Clean pages. 8vo. 145pp.
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Italo Calvino. The Path To The Nest Of Spiders. Beacon Press, 1957.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is the First US edition. 145 pages.The book is NF unmarked , tight and bright. Green cloth with dark spine titles. A VG + unclipped Jacket that shows some browning on the edges and has a couple of small tears, one on the bottom rear cover and one at the spine tips. The rear cover is a bit shelf soiled. Please see all images.
Seller: Turn Up the Volume, Bedford, VA, U.S.A.
Calvino, Italo. The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Beacon Press, Boston, 1957.
Price: US$79.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's green cloth titled in black. First US edition. Cloth is mildly stained, contents unstained. Firm binding/hinges. The DJ in mylar is toned to spine, nicked to spine ends, stained to bottom half of front panel, but staining is more visible on DJ verso. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 145 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth boards stamped in black. Price clipped dust jacket worn along edges with general rubbing and patchy staining. Boards rubbed at corners and nudged at spine ends. Binding is sound. Front free endpaper sanded but pages otherwise unmarked. A Very Good copy of the first U.S. appearance of the author's first novel.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Calvino, Italo. The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Beacon Press, 1957.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Author's first book published in the U.S., translated by Archibald Colquhoun. 8vo, sea-green cloth. Head of spine faded where jacket is chipped. Jacket missing eighth of inch at head of spine, tanned and dust-soiled on back cover. Scarce.
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 145. A very good tight clean copy in wrinkled and some worn dj. The author's first book (a novel) and first to be translated into English.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Calvino, Italo. The Path to The Nest of Spiders. Beacon Press, 1957.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: (1st US) Slightly smaller book, light blue cloth, light brown stain with some discoloration at bottom front tips and nearby edge, light brown stain at top front tip, ink name at top of first front end paper, 145 lightly browned pages. DJ beneath mylar and price clipped, heavy paper with abstract color-illustration of buildings in yellow, black, white and gray on front and spine. DJ has very tiny nick at spine top edge, tiny tear at spine bottom right, slight browning at edges. Near Very Good DJ/Good book.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Calvino, Italo. The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Beacon Press, Boston, 1957.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Green cloth with titles in black. A bright and clean copy in tight binding. In nice dust jacket which is price-clipped, has two small very light brown stains on rear panel, no tears or chips, etc. Jacket is in a mylar protector.
Seller: Studio Books, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: First Printing. Fine and unread in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. A touch of nicking at the crown, with a small splash at the bottom right corner of the rear panel and faint soil to same. Calvino's first novel, and the first to be published in the U.S. Told from a child's perspective, Calvino paints the trauma of war torn Italy using a variety of impressive characters.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. First American Edition, first printing. Hardcover, bound in publisher's green cloth. 145 pp., 8.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with age toning, mostly to extremities, ¼ in. spot darkened on spine, else intact. The author's first book published in the U.S., translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun.
Seller: Mast Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Calvino, Italo. The Path to the Nest of Spiders.. Boston: Beacon Press (1957). 1st ed., 1957.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. 8vo. 145 pp. Original grey-green cloth. Calvino's first book. Light wear at the crown of the spine else fine in a bright price-intact DJ with shallow wear crown of the backstrip else fine.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
Calvino, Italo. THE PATH TO THE NEST OF SPIDERS. Boston: Beacon Press (1957), 1957.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition of Calvino's first book. An excellent copy in green cloth, black titles to the spine (small unobtrusive circle of glue residue on the front pastedown, tiny stain to bottom page edges) in a lovely, bright pc. pictorial dustwra pper gently sunned on the spine. 8vo. 145 pp.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
CALVINO, Italo (1923-1985). The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Beacon Press, Boston, 1957.
Price: US$214.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing (no additional printings noted) of the author's first novel, translated into English by Archibald Colquhoun. 8vo: [6],145,[1]pp. Publisher's coarsely woven sea-green cloth, spine lettered in black, fore-edge untrimmed; illustrated dust jacket priced $3.50. Fine (hint of rubbing to spine ends); about Fine jacket (spine panel very lightly faded and rubbed). First published, in 1947, in Italian (Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno), narrating an episode of the Italian Resistance from a child's point of view. Calvino witnessed the Second World War up close. Mussolini's first military operation was to invade the French Riviera adjacent to San Remo, where the college-bound Italo lived with his parents on the Ligurian coast, home to Calvinos for generations. His university career was interrupted by the collapse of Fascism, in 1943, and the ensuing civil warâ"the "Resistance"â"between the partisans and the Fascist Salò Republic, the puppet state created by German forces in the north of Italy. Calvino's engagement as a partisan marked him deeply, and he emerged from the experience as a committed Communist intellectual. Nest of Spioders received considerable critical acclaim and sold remarkably well for a work written by a virtually unknown writer. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. [vi], 145 pp. Bound in publisher's bluish green cloth with black lettering. Near Fine in Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket, worn tips, small closed tear to back panel, spine a little sunned. The Italian author's first work to be translated into English.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
CALVINO, ITALO. THE PATH TO THE NEST OF SPIDERS. BEACON PRESS PUB 1957, BOSTON, MA, 1957.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HAS SLIGHT LOSS TO CORNERS ALONG THE TOP EDGE WITH LIGHT SOIL AND TONING TO THE REAR PANEL, SPINE PANEL FADED FROM YELLOW TO TAN, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Calvino, Italo. The Path to The Nest Of Spiders. Beacon Press, Boston, 1957.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 145 pages. First American edition, first printing. His first book to be translated into English by Archibald Colquhoun. Fine book with a touch of shelf wear to the bottom edge in a fine dust jacket with very slight rubbing to the top of the spine. A beautiful copy!.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Calvino, Italo. The Path to The Nest Of Spiders. Beacon Press, Boston, 1957.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First US edition of his first book. Near fine copy with light wear to lower spine end, otherwise quite nice in about near fine unclipped jacket with some light chipping to upper spine. Overall, one of the nicer copies I have seen of this book.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
CALVINO, Italo. The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Beacon Press, Boston, 1957.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. A trifle worn, still easily fine in a price-clipped, and slightly spine-tanned, else fine dustwrapper. The author's first book to be published in the U.S.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CALVINO, Italo. The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Beacon Press, 1957.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American Edition. Clipped DJ in archival cover; otherwise Fine in Fine.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
CALVINO, Italo. The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Beacon Press, Boston, 1957.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Green linen over boards; dustjacket; 145pp. Tight, attractive copy with pencil erasure to front endpaper and light soiling to upper edge of text block; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped but lightly soiled on rear panel, slightly darkened on spine panel; Very Good Plus. Quite nice copy of the first of the author's books to be published in America.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Calvino, Italo. The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Beacon Press, Boston, 1957.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 145 pages. First American edition, first printing. His first book to be translated into English by Archibald Colquhoun. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
CALVINO, Italo. The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Beacon Press, Boston, 1957.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. Very slight darkening to the endpapers from the binder's glue, and a little foxing to the foredge, else fine in fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy of the author's first book to be published in the U.S.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ***** This is the true American first edition, first printing (with the 1957 copyright date, and with no later printings listed). ***** This book is SIGNED by the author (Italo Calvino) on the front endpage. The author has not inscribed this book to anyone; it is just signed by the author. ***** Signed examples of this title are rare. ***** Nice hardcover with dust jacket. There is NO writing, NO bookplates, and NO remainder marks. It is NOT a book club edition and NOT a former library book. The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped ($3.50). ***** CONDITION: Both the book and dust jacket are in VERY GOOD condition. ***** We include new mylar (clear) dust jacket protectors with all books at no charge. ***** OUR GUARANTEE TO YOU: All books are guaranteed to be as described. We believe that no sale is complete until you are happy. Any book is returnable for a full refund (including postage) if you're not 100% satisfied. All books are packaged very carefully and shipped via USPS Mail with Delivery Confirmation. Thank you! Richard Vick, Modern First Editions (Buying and Selling Modern First Editions since 1982).
Seller: Richard Vick, Modern First Editions, Coral Springs, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$2800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: ***** This is the true American first edition, first printing (with the 1957 copyright date, and with no later printings listed). ***** This book is SIGNED by the author (Italo Calvino) on the front endpage. The author has not inscribed this book to anyone; it is just signed by the author. ***** Signed examples of this title are rare. ***** Nice hardcover with dust jacket. There is NO writing, NO bookplates, and NO remainder marks. It is NOT a book club edition and NOT a former library book. The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped ($3.50). ***** CONDITION: Both the book and dust jacket are in NEAR FINE condition. ***** We include new mylar (clear) dust jacket protectors with all books at no charge. ***** OUR GUARANTEE TO YOU: All books are guaranteed to be as described. We believe that no sale is complete until you are happy. Any book is returnable for a full refund (including postage) if you're not 100% satisfied. All books are packaged very carefully and shipped via USPS Mail with Delivery Confirmation. Thank you! Richard Vick, Modern First Editions (Buying and Selling Modern First Editions since 1982).
Seller: Richard Vick, Modern First Editions, Coral Springs, FL, U.S.A.