Italo Calvino / Invisible Cities Signed 1st Edition 1972

Author: Calvino, Italo Title: Invisible Cities Publication: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972 Edition: First Edition. With a laid-in holograph postcard signed by Calvino to scholar Albert Howard Carter. Quarter grey buckram with black paper on the boards, bumped and rubbed at the edges and corners.

Bound with a forward lean and some reading wear, annotations from Calvino scholar Albert Howard Carter throughout, demonstrating the effort required to puzzle together the order of the book. Calvino's novel in the form of a time traveling conversation between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo.

Neblua Award nominee in 1975. Based in the far northwest reaches of the Chicago suburbs, Carpetbagger Books specializes in literary fiction and modern firsts. We guarantee the condition of every book as it's described. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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