Denning Trevor Artwork (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. First editions, first impression. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10s 6d. Mexican vultures, Mexican murders, and a Mexican sleuth. A very good copy; jacket with rubbing to extremities, minor chipping, otherwise very good. Jacket artwork by Trevor Denning. (illustrator). Book. …

Gouache on artboard, with the image measuring 9.5 X 12 inches and the board measuring 10.5 X 15 inches; signed by artist Trevor Denning near lower right corner. Brief pencilled notation regarding measurments on the lower margin, with the publisher, author, and translator's names overlaid and mounted to the piece on thick cardstock. The printers' instruction sheet for Collins is handwritten on pink stock, affixed on verso. Original dustjacket artwork for the First British Edition of Calvino's first novel. The novel, told from a child's perspective, paints the trauma of war torn Italy using a variety of impressive characters, namely a young boy and his teenage sister, who are depicted on the jacket. The only artwork we have seen associated with one of Calvino's books, and quite dazzling in comparison to its American counterpart.…