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First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the first blank: "Dear Roz, Dear Bill, please read me in Italian! Italo". Rosalyn Targ was Calvino's American literary agent, who handled the foreign rights to his books; her husband William was the editor-in-chief at G. P. Putnam's Sons and the founder of the one-man publishing house Targ Editions. Invisible Cities, a fantastical catalogue of impossible cities narrated by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan, won the Feltrinelli Prize in 1972. William Weaver's English translation was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1975. Octavo. Original light green cloth, spine lettered in white. With dust jacket. Unclipped jacket lightly rubbed and creased: a near-fine copy in near-fine dust jacket.

Invisible Cities, written by Italo Calvino, is a novel that explores imagination and the imaginable through the descriptions of cities by the explorer Marco Polo. The book is framed as a conversation between Polo and the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan.