Path Nest Spiders by Calvino (69 results)

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.56.

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Hardcover. Unknown edition. /Wraps (7231) Scratches on DJ. Remainder mark on foreedge . 185.

Condition: new.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. (Originally published, 1947) Light blue cloth, top tips slightly bumped, all tips badly worn, tiny very slight surface wear spot on top front edge, light threading and wear along bottom front edge next to spine and bottom front tip, significant surface wear along top 1/2" of top back edge, light wear and threading at bottom back edge, tip and next to spine, some browning to inside covers and adjacent end papers. DJ color-illustrated, very slight wear and tiny tears along front edges, several tears up to 3/4" at spine top left, thin chip with slight wear at spine bottom edge, two tiny tears and very tiny tears at top back edge, two heavy creases near top back, two 1/4" but wide tears at bottom back tip and near middle of bottom back edge, thumb-sized surface tear up from bottom back edge. Fair DJ/Near Good book.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 180 pages. Spanish language. 8.60x5.70x0.70 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: About Very Good. 1st Ace Books UK edition. Calvino's first book, originally published in 1947 in Italian, and here translated from that language by Archibald Colquhoun. More often than not subsequently published as 'The Path to the Spiders' Nest.' The story of "a gutter boy's search for an ideal among the Italian partisans." 158 pages. Some edgewear, surface wear, 3/4" tears to top right spine edge and either spine edge at bottom, tanning. Somewhat scarce in this edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition Book in good condition No signatures. Slight tanning to block edges and . Extreme top of spine missing with corresponding loss to top wrapper(titles still complete). Is not price clipped but has price written in pen 1 inch split to top left of rear wrapper. Wear and small nicks to rear wrapper and wear to tips corners and and base spine.

hardcover. No Jacket. First Edition. Boston. 1957. Beacon Press. 1st American Edition. Small Bump On Top Rear Boards & Some Slight Corner Wear, Otherwise Very Good. No Dustjacket. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. 145 pages. hardcover. keywords: Europe Italy Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - This is the story of Pin, the cobbler's apprentice, who grows up in one of the ancient fortress-towns of the Ligurian coast in the period of World War II when the partisans are fighting back from the hills, and German soldiers are quartered in the town. Pin is a skinny kid who must keep his wits sharp in order to live. With the other boys who have families, he is an outcast: he has no family except a prostitute sister. Pin therefore is 'forced to take refuge in the world of grown-ups' in 'the smoky violet air of the tavern,' where he hears talk which he can imitate - to get obscene laughter - but cannot understand. He sings sentimental songs and learns how to insult and to curse - but all the while he yearns to be one of the gang, 'to go off with a band of young companions to whom he could show the place where spiders make their nests, or with whom he could have battles among the bam- boos in the river-bed.' How he joins the partisans and makes common cause with another outcast - one of the strangest combinations since OF MICE AND MEN - is part of the story; but chiefly this is a tender-tough portrait of a boy living in a world he never made, and never would have made; and it is told with absolutely no sentimentalism. In fact, Sean O'Faolain finds that the author 'has something of the subjective response to nature of Pavese, and the hardness and innocence of Vittorini.' If this story does not grip American hearts in a way that no reader will soon forget, we are going out of the prophesying business. inventory #16488 Small Bump On Top Rear Boards & Some Slight Corner Wear, Otherwise Very Good. No Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st American Edition. 8vo. Translated from the Italian. 145 p.p. Green cloth boards with black stamped lettering to spine. Sunning to spine and edges, a few small stains, bumping and rubbing to spine ends and corners. Light foxing to top edge of text block. Sticker ghost to head of front pastedown. Roughly cut edges, some small chips from cutting not affecting text. This is Italian author Italo Calvino's first novel, first published by Einaudi in 1947.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Author's first book published in the U.S., translated by Archibald Colquhoun. 8vo, sea-green cloth. Head of spine faded where jacket is chipped. Jacket missing eighth of inch at head of spine, tanned and dust-soiled on back cover. Scarce.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. No Jacket. First American Edition. Bound in green cloth, stamped in black. Tight, clean copy. The first edition of the author's first book -- lacking the dust jacket -- but the rear flap and the rear panel is laid in. 143 pp.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st US. (1st US) Slightly smaller book, light blue cloth, light brown stain with some discoloration at bottom front tips and nearby edge, light brown stain at top front tip, ink name at top of first front end paper, 145 lightly browned pages. DJ beneath mylar and price clipped, heavy paper with abstract color-illustration of buildings in yellow, black, white and gray on front and spine. DJ has very tiny nick at spine top edge, tiny tear at spine bottom right, slight browning at edges. Near Very Good DJ/Good book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Previous owner's signature in pen on front endpapr. Some yellowing along front & rear gutters. Some shallow chipping to dust jacket spine at head & heel. The pink coloring on the jacket spine is slightly faded. Back panel of jacket slightly yellowed, rubbed in lower left corner. Top edges of jacket flaps browned. Jacket in protective mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. ***** This is the true first US edition, first printing of the Author's first book (with "Published by the Beacon Press in 1957" stated on the copyright page, and with no later printings listed). ***** This book is SIGNED by the author (Italo Calvino) on the front endpage. The author has not inscribed this book to anyone; it is just signed by the author. ***** Very nice hardcover with dust jacket. There is NO writing, NO bookplates, and NO remainder marks. It is NOT a book club edition and NOT a former library book. The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped ($3.50). ***** CONDITION: Both the book and dust jacket are in NEARFINE condition. ***** We provide new Mylar (clear) dust jacket protectors with all books at no charge. ***** OUR GUARANTEE TO YOU: All books are guaranteed to be as described. We believe that no sale is complete until you are happy. Any book is returnable for a full refund (including postage) if you're not 100% satisfied. All books are packaged very carefully and shipped via USPS Mail with Delivery Confirmation. Thank you! Richard Vick, Modern First Editions (Buying and Selling Modern First Editions since 1982). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood hardcover, missing dust jacket. Front free endpaper corner clipped, prior owner's name in pen. Clean pages. 8vo. 145pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. 8vo. 145 pp. Original grey-green cloth. Calvino's first book. Light wear at the crown of the spine else fine in a bright price-intact DJ with shallow wear crown of the backstrip else fine.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition of Calvino's first book. An excellent copy in green cloth, black titles to the spine (small unobtrusive circle of glue residue on the front pastedown, tiny stain to bottom page edges) in a lovely, bright pc. pictorial dustwra pper gently sunned on the spine. 8vo. 145 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st English edition, 1st printing. Boards are clean. Content is clean with light even toning on the ebdpapers. Good DJ with some tears. Solid Binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine-. First Edition. First Printing (no additional printings noted) of the author's first novel, translated into English by Archibald Colquhoun. 8vo: [6],145,[1]pp. Publisher's coarsely woven sea-green cloth, spine lettered in black, fore-edge untrimmed; illustrated dust jacket priced $3.50. Fine (hint of rubbing to spine ends); about Fine jacket (spine panel very lightly faded and rubbed). First published, in 1947, in Italian (Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno), narrating an episode of the Italian Resistance from a child's point of view. Calvino witnessed the Second World War up close. Mussolini's first military operation was to invade the French Riviera adjacent to San Remo, where the college-bound Italo lived with his parents on the Ligurian coast, home to Calvinos for generations. His university career was interrupted by the collapse of Fascism, in 1943, and the ensuing civil warâ"the "Resistance"â"between the partisans and the Fascist Salò Republic, the puppet state created by German forces in the north of Italy. Calvino's engagement as a partisan marked him deeply, and he emerged from the experience as a committed Communist intellectual. Nest of Spioders received considerable critical acclaim and sold remarkably well for a work written by a virtually unknown writer. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Hardcover. First Edition. First American edition. [vi], 145 pp. Bound in publisher's bluish green cloth with black lettering. Near Fine in Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket, worn tips, small closed tear to back panel, spine a little sunned. The Italian author's first work to be translated into English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING. THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL UNPRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 192 PAGES. SOME MINOR EDGE WEAR TO JACKET WITH LOSS AT TOP OF SPINE & FRONT BOTTOM CORNER, TEXT TO CLOTH SPINE SLIGHTLY DULL, PRIVATE BOOKPLATE TO INNER FRONT BOARD, LIGHT BROWNING TO ENDPAPERS, LIGHT FOXING TO PAGE FORE-EDGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. fine copy in the original slate blue cloth in a near fine dust jacket pictorial, tiny rubbing to tips of dj else fine. this is the 1st american edition of Calvino's rare 1st novel set in Italy. translated by Archibald Colqoun. Calvino's first novel, which narrates an episode of the Resistance from a child's point of view. Calvino witnessed the beginning of the Second World War up close. Mussolini's first military operation was to invade the French Riviera adjacent to San Remo where the college-bound Italo lived with his parents on the Ligurian coast, home to Calvinos for generations. His university career was interrupted by the collapse of Fascism, in 1943, and the ensuing civil war?the "Resistance"?between the partisans and the Fascist Salò Republic, the puppet state created by German forces in the north of Italy. Calvino's engagement as a partisan marked him deeply, and he emerged from the experience as a committed Communist intellectual. this is a special copy from the library of Erle Stanley Gardener the famous mystery author of Perry Mason, with a letter of provenance laid in. Fine copy.

HARDCOVER. Condition: FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. FIRST EDITION. TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HAS SLIGHT LOSS TO CORNERS ALONG THE TOP EDGE WITH LIGHT SOIL AND TONING TO THE REAR PANEL, SPINE PANEL FADED FROM YELLOW TO TAN, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. A trifle worn, still easily fine in a price-clipped, and slightly spine-tanned, else fine dustwrapper. The author's first book to be published in the U.S.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 145 pages. First American edition, first printing. His first book to be translated into English by Archibald Colquhoun. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. Clipped DJ in archival cover; otherwise Fine in Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. Very slight darkening to the endpapers from the binder's glue, and a little foxing to the foredge, else fine in fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy of the author's first book to be published in the U.S.