A nice first printing of this posthumous collection of ruminations on the creative process, which Calvino had written to deliver as part of Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton Lecture series in 1985-86. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. First printing. Octavo (8.5 x 5.5 in.); 124pp.; gray cloth boards, in dust jacket. Some light, pale foxing to textblock top and fore-edge, thus near fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket whose spine panel has been sun-faded from purple to blue.
