Invisible Cities
Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Softbound. Cover design by Arnold Skolnick. SOLD.
Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978 (Later Printing). Softbound. Cover design by Louise Fili. $15.
Two printings of the same edition of the Calvino classic, offering two very different cover approaches: Skolnick's earlier and much scarcer silvered Fibonacci-scape and Fili's postmodern reframing of a 17th-century woodcut. Both feature the same incredible design to the interior, with architectural headings backed by deep drop-shadows, and both are translated by the great William Weaver, who during his 50-year career, also produced English versions of works by Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, as well as numerous poems and opera libretti.
