If Winters Night Traveler by Italo Calvino, First Edition

Condition: New. 1993. 01st Edition. Hardcover. A postmodern novel which combines a love and a detective story with a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in an allegory of reading. Two readers attempt to finish the same book, but are comically and repeatedly frustrated. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 438. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st. 0151436894.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. UK1ST.EDITION.1ST.PRINTING THUS-THE FIRST EVERYMAN EDITION.NEAR FIEN HARDBACK IN NEAR FIEN DUSTWRAPPER.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. Some minor yellowing to page edges. Bound in yellow cloth over red boards, stamped in black, in bright, illustrated dust jacket. The first American edition of this now classic work by Calvino. 260 pp.

Hardcover. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8vo). 260pp. Publisher`s quarter cloth over paper-covered boards. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket. The book itself shows the head and foot of the spine lightly rubbed, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows the slightest hint of shelf rubbng along the edges with several very short and shallow closed tears, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. Quarter cloth. Dust jacket. 260 pp. Minor wear to jacket edges. Crease at front jacket flap is rolled over a bit, making the jacket seem to fit loosely. Laid in is the review of this book clipped from the August 3, 1981 issue of the New Yorker. An excellent copy. This is a first printing of the first English translation of Calvino's classic avant garde masterpiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated, first printing with correct printing line. Book is near fine with bumped corners and some foxing to top edge. Jacket is also near fine with similar notice of bumps and very light wear to edges of jacket. This is a landmark piece of postmodern fiction now scarce in its first printing. 260 page octavo, red paper boards with yellow cloth spine, pictorial jacket. Satisfaction guaranteed. Photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated, first printing with correct printing line. Book is near fine with erasure mark to ffep and a single 2mmx1mm stain to block edge. Jacket is also near fine with crease on each inner flap, and a small tear on each of the flap hinges. Present very well in protective mylar. This is a landmark piece of postmodern fiction now scarce in its first printing. 260 page octavo, red paper boards with yellow cloth spine, pictorial jacket. Satisfaction guaranteed. Photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

First edition in English of Calvino's avant-garde masterpiece. Octavo, original half. Signed by Italo Calvino on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Rubin Pfeffer. Jacket photograph by Benn Mitchell. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another. In a 1985 interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated If on a winter's night a traveler was "clearly" influenced by the writings of Vladimir Nabokov. The book was also influenced by the author's membership in the literary group Oulipo. The structure of the text is said to be an adaptation of the structural semiology of A.J. Greimas. In a letter written to critic Lucio Lombardo Radice dated November 13, 1979 (Italo Calvino: letters, 1941-1985; Princeton University Press, 2013, p. 501), Calvino mentions Bulgakov, Kawabata, Tanizaki, Rulfo, Arguedas, Borges and Chesterton as having influenced, in various ways, the narrative style of the ten stories that comprise the book. The Telegraph included the novel in a list of "100 novels everyone should read" in 2009, describing it as a "playful postmodernist puzzle.".