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Italo Calvino – Baron In The Trees – First UK Edition 1959
£250.00
The first English language translation by Archibald Colquhoun of Calvino’s “Il Barone Rampante”. Published by Collins in 1959. A very good book with with one name. In a very good unclipped wrapper with some chipping to the foot of the spine. Some wear to the corners. One or two nicks to the rear panel.
Described as a conte philosophique and a metaphor for independence, it tells the adventures of a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life inhabiting an arboreal kingdom.
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The first English language translation by Archibald Colquhoun of Calvino’s “Il Barone Rampante”. Published by Collins in 1959. A very good book with with one name. In a very good unclipped wrapper with some chipping to the foot of the spine. Some wear to the corners. One or two nicks to the rear panel.
Described as a conte philosophique and a metaphor for independence, it tells the adventures of a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life inhabiting an arboreal kingdom.
