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Invisible Cities

Item date(s): 1999

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.

Ref: GB/12015



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