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The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Calvino, Italo - 1977

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The Castle of Crossed Destinies

by Calvino, Italo

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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Marbled brown boards with a black cloth backstrip. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. Brown endpapers. 129pps., with numerous illustrations, including 8 full-color plates. First printing. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket is mildly rubbed with light touches of edgewear; the original price (10.00) is intact.

"With magical dexterity, Italo Calvino uses the device of tarot cards and their archetypal images to create a series of short, fantastic narratives. In a fairytale setting -- a castle and a tavern in the heart of a dense wood -- a company of men and women are brought together by chance. Distraught by strange adventures, they find they have lost their voices.
To communicate their fates -- love affairs, battles, conquests, betrayals -- they must deal out, one after the other, the cards of a game of tarot, whose configurations reveal their several plights..."

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  • Edition First Edition
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  • ISBN 10 0436082217
  • ISBN 13 9780436082214
  • Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1977
  • Keywords ITALO CALVINO THE CASTLE OF CROSSED DESTINIES FIRST EDITIONS LITERATURE LITERARY FICTION ITALIAN AUTHORS TAROT CARDS FANTASY MYTH FORTUNETELLING COLLECTIBLE BOOKS NOVELS

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The Castle of Crossed Destinies

by Italo Calvino; translated by William Weaver

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UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[First published in Italy as 'Il castello dei destini incrociati.' Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. First published in England by Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, [London],1977. This particular example reprinted by same publisher, 1993. Pages 3 to 48 originally appeared in Italo Calvino's 'Tarots: The Visconti Pack in Bergamo and New York. Grateful acknowledgement is made to The Pierpont Morgan Library for permission to use and for the reproduction of the colour illustrations of the eight tarot cards from the Visconti pack in their collection.] VG/VG. No owner inscrptn no clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher price.These unpriced editions are generally believed to be export edns released before the trade edition's publication and distribution in the country of its origin.Bright,glossy black background with 2 colour pictorial Tarot card illustrations side by side - i.e. Strength and the Queen of Swords to front panel of dw/dj with capitalised,glossy gilt… Read More
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