London: Secker & Warburg, 1974. First edition. 165pp. Blind-embossed black cloth over boards; gray quarter-cloth; dust jacket. Light sunning to topstain and board extremities, former owner's named penned to front pastedown. Unclipped jacket with rubbing to front and rear panels, short closed tear at head of rear panel, wear at spine ends, short creases to flaps. Near fine in a very good jacket.
First UK edition of Calvino's masterpiece, a series of prose vignettes of imaginary cities as narrated by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. Translated by William Weaver. With the same Arnold Skolnick jacket design as the US first.
