Italo Calvino
- (author) Wayne Thiebaud
- (drawings by) William Weaver
- (translated and introduced by)
Pages: unpaged (164pp) Size: 360mm Binding: Anodized ring binding with U-posts Technique: Drawings from photopolymer plates Inscription: Signed by the artist Edition: #47/400
Place publication: San Francisco, CA Publisher: Arion Press
Additional notes: The twelve drawings are from photo-polymer plates on mylar, each backed by a sheet of a different colour matching the colour of the drawing.
Each page is punched with four holes. Bound by Paul Sheet in an anodized aluminium ring blinding with U-posts onto which the pages fit. The brushed aluminium lid is held in place by a rounded rod. In a drop-back grey cloth box with label on the spine. The text and illustrations wer printed by letterpress.
This is the fifty-seventh publication of the Arion Press.
Ursus catalogue 278, Number 84.
Illustrated as Lot 8 of The Ritter Collection of Modern Illustrated Books and Livres d'Artiste, Swann Auction Galleries, 5/5/09.
See Bonhams auction catalogue 15/12/2009, Lot 5130.
Illustrated as item 85 in Ursus Books catalogue 261"Classics in Contemporary and Modern Art. n.d.
Illustrated as item 163 in Artists & Books 1900-Present. Ursus Books, New York, 2014.