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If On A Winter's Night a Traveler
by Calvino, Italo
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151436894
- ISBN 13
- 9780151436897
- Seller
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Madison, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. 260pp. Red boards. Yellow spine. Light, thin streak on the gutter of the front panel, otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. Price-clipped pictorial jacket has a creased front flap, and a 1/8" loss on the lower spine, light ding to bottom edge,otherwise free of tears, chips. in mylar sleeve. "Using shifting structures, a succession of tales, and different points of view, the book probes the nature of change, coincidence, and chance and the interdependence of fiction and reality.". First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo.
Synopsis
Italo Calvino's works include Numbers in the Dark , The Road to San Giovanni , Six Memos for the Next Millennium , The Baron in the Trees , If on a Winter's Night a Traveller , Invisible Cities , Marcovaldo , and Mr. Palomar . He died in 1985.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033475
- Title
- If On A Winter's Night a Traveler
- Author
- Calvino, Italo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151436894
- ISBN 13
- 9780151436897
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Fiction Reality Tales
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Madison, New Jersey
About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
The Chatham Bookseller began in 1968, and, in 1970, opened a store at its present location in Madison, NJ. The store contains over 10,000 books in over 80 different subjects, and favors good used books and good literature (both hardcover and paperback) over popular books and bestsellers. Our Internet business began in 2001. Upon visiting the store, we can show and sell individual online titles upon request. Store hours are 10:00-5:30 (Tues.-Sat.) and 11:00-4:00 (Sun.). The business is run by Richard Chalfin.
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- Gutter
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- Jacket
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...