The Complete Cosmicomics

Overview:

  • Title: The Complete Cosmicomics
  • Author: Italo Calvino
  • Year: 2014
  • ISBN-10: 9780544146440
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Price: $24.00
  • Pages: xxiv+402
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Omnibus
  • Title Reference: Cosmicomics
  • Notes:
    • "First U.S. edition" stated on the copyright page with a complete number line: "DOC 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"
    • "Translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, and William Weaver" stated on the title page.
    • Year of publication stated on the title page. Month of publication from the code "0914" printed on the front flap of the dustjacket. Date of publication from Amazon.com.
    • The complete Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is provided on the copyright page including the ISBN (978-0-544-14644-0) and the LCCN (2014001375).
    • Book reprints the entire contents of Cosmicomics (1968) [pages 1 - 152] and Time and the Hunter (1969) [pages 153 - 294] (both translated by William Weaver), and adds eight stories from the previously untranslated collection La memoria del mondo e altre storie cosmicomiche (1968, "World Memory and Other Cosmicomic Stories") [pages 295 - 372] (first seven stories translated by Martin McLaughlin, the last "World Memory" translated by Tim Parks), two stories from Cosmicomics Old and New [pages 373 - 390] (Tim Parks, translator), and a rewritten cosmicomic story "Th Other Eurydice" (Tim Parks, translator).
    • There is an uncredited "Note on the Translations" on the unnumbered page after the introduction.
    • The last page [402] is not numbered.
    • "Cover design by Peter Mendelsund & Oliver Munday" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.