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Calvino, Italo; translated By William Weaver, Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright.
Difficult Loves
New York, Harcourt Brace,
1984, First American Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, 0151256101 Calvino's collection of stories from the 40's an 50's; a theft in a pastry shop, a frenzied evening in a town taver, a young soldier caught up in a private fantasy of seduction, a middle class woman who discovers while swimming that she has lost the lower part of her bikini. Collection headings: Riviera Stories; Wartime Stories (1940's); Postwar Stories; Stories of Love and Loneliness. Red boards, red cloth spine. DJ not price clipped, white, illustrated, red lettering. Mild roll to upper and lower edges, pale red mark (looks like finger print) to lower corners, front and rear. All else fine, clean white text, solidly bound, no markings. 290 pp, 8 vo.First Am. Edition
(Italo, Calvino, Italian, Stories, Italian, Translations, First, Modern, Edition) Cat No. 2211.
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Calvino, Italo; translated By William Weaver, Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright.
Difficult Loves
New York, Harcourt Brace,
1984, First American Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, 0151256101 Calvino's collection of stories from the 40's an 50's; a theft in a pastry shop, a frenzied evening in a town taver, a young soldier caught up in a private fantasy of seduction, a middle class woman who discovers while swimming that she has lost the lower part of her bikini. Collection headings: Riviera Stories; Wartime Stories (1940's); Postwar Stories; Stories of Love and Loneliness. Red boards, red cloth spine. DJ not price clipped, white, illustrated, red lettering. Mild roll to upper and lower edges, pale red mark (looks like finger print) to lower corners, front and rear. All else fine, clean white text, solidly bound, no markings. 290 pp, 8 vo.First Am. Edition
(Italo, Calvino, Italian, Stories, Italian, Translations, First, Modern, Edition) Cat No. 2211.
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Calvino, Italo; translated By William Weaver, Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright.
Difficult Loves
New York, Harcourt Brace,
1984, First American Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, 0151256101 Calvino's collection of stories from the 40's an 50's; a theft in a pastry shop, a frenzied evening in a town taver, a young soldier caught up in a private fantasy of seduction, a middle class woman who discovers while swimming that she has lost the lower part of her bikini. Collection headings: Riviera Stories; Wartime Stories (1940's); Postwar Stories; Stories of Love and Loneliness. Red boards, red cloth spine. DJ not price clipped, white, illustrated, red lettering. Mild roll to upper and lower edges, pale red mark (looks like finger print) to lower corners, front and rear. All else fine, clean white text, solidly bound, no markings. 290 pp, 8 vo.First Am. Edition
(Italo, Calvino, Italian, Stories, Italian, Translations, First, Modern, Edition) Cat No. 2211.
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Armory, Cleveland.
Home Town
New York, Harper & Bros,
1950, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Mitch Hickok from Cooper City, Az. a unique young man from a unique city, goes to New York. There he meets, Bill Devereux, world weary publicist; Mr. Lester King, Big Time Operator, who Knew People and Gin, the girl with the bombsight hair, who first liked, then loved Mitch. Their advice bounced off Mitch like hail on a zinc roof, as he made his way in out of the Waldorf, a salesman's conference, a cocktail party, a radio program, a night club, and even the "ground floor" of television. He listened to everybody, but did what he planned to do in the first place. A success story, one which pits one standard of values against another, a charminly funny account of the meeting of East and West--American version, and the sparks fly as the two cultures come together. Black cloth boards and spine, gilt lettering to spine. DJ not price clipped. Upper spine end shipeed to corners with closed tears, 1 1/2 by 1/2 inch tear along upper edge, rear upper corner chipped. Black with white lettering, red title panels. All else clean, solidly bound. 8 vo, 310 pp. First Edition
(Fifties, Novels, First, Edition, Novels, Cleveland, Armory, Success, Stories, Home, Town, First, Edition) Cat No. 2212.
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Armory, Cleveland.
Home Town
New York, Harper & Bros,
1950, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Mitch Hickok from Cooper City, Az. a unique young man from a unique city, goes to New York. There he meets, Bill Devereux, world weary publicist; Mr. Lester King, Big Time Operator, who Knew People and Gin, the girl with the bombsight hair, who first liked, then loved Mitch. Their advice bounced off Mitch like hail on a zinc roof, as he made his way in out of the Waldorf, a salesman's conference, a cocktail party, a radio program, a night club, and even the "ground floor" of television. He listened to everybody, but did what he planned to do in the first place. A success story, one which pits one standard of values against another, a charminly funny account of the meeting of East and West--American version, and the sparks fly as the two cultures come together. Black cloth boards and spine, gilt lettering to spine. DJ not price clipped. Upper spine end shipeed to corners with closed tears, 1 1/2 by 1/2 inch tear along upper edge, rear upper corner chipped. Black with white lettering, red title panels. All else clean, solidly bound. 8 vo, 310 pp. First Edition
(Fifties, Novels, First, Edition, Novels, Cleveland, Armory, Success, Stories, Home, Town, First, Edition) Cat No. 2212.
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