CALVINO, Italo. Cosmicomics. Trans. from the Italian by William Weaver. London: Jonathan Cape. 1969. 8vo. First British edition. Originally published in Italy under the title, Le Cosmicomiche. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, faint blue topstain, in the excellent dust jacket by the unidentified Om Tentacle. A very good or better copy. The cloth clean, bright and sharp. The binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine but for a few very mild spots to the textbook edges. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net) and complete, a trifle bumped with some mild brown stains to the front panel top edge.
A sharp example of this always refreshing short story collection of phantasmagoric tales of human evolution, told by the wonderfully unpronounceable extant Qfwfq. It blends scientific theory with philosophy and science fiction to, in some senses, transcend all three genres.
CALVINO, Italo. Cosmicomics. Trans. from the Italian by William Weaver. London: Jonathan Cape. 1969. 8vo. First British edition. Originally published in Italy under the title, Le Cosmicomiche. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, faint blue topstain, in the excellent dust jacket by the unidentified Om Tentacle. A very good or better copy. The cloth clean, bright and sharp. The binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine but for a few very mild spots to the textbook edges. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net) and complete, a trifle bumped with some mild brown stains to the front panel top edge.
A sharp example of this always refreshing short story collection of phantasmagoric tales of human evolution, told by the wonderfully unpronounceable extant Qfwfq. It blends scientific theory with philosophy and science fiction to, in some senses, transcend all three genres.
