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Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
by Calvino, Italo
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0517199009
- ISBN 13
- 9780517199008
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon, 1997. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo, black cloth spine over black paper covered boards with silver spine titles. 276 pp. plus biographical note on author. A tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, bright, tight, unclipped dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..
Synopsis
For the first time in paperback--a volume of thirty-seven diabolically inventive stories, fables, and "impossible interviews" from one of the great fantasists of the 20th century, displaying the full breadth of his vision and wit. Written between 1943 and 1984 and masterfully translated by Tim Parks, the fictions in Numbers in the Dark display all of Calvino's dazzling gifts: whimsy and horror, exuberance of style, and a cheerful grasp of the absurdities of the human condition.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09189
- Title
- Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
- Author
- Calvino, Italo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0517199009
- ISBN 13
- 9780517199008
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS, STORIES, STORY, SHORT, CALVINO, ITALY, ITALIAN, AWARD, WINNER, WINNING, PRIZE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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