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First US Edition
Books within books
Jul 17, 2017
The dust jackets for two early editions of Italo Calvino’s If On a Winters Night A Traveler featured repeating book covers, stacked on top of one another or receding into the distance like an infinity mirror. On his blog, Peter Mendelsund proposed a paperback cover which was simply a photo of a previously-published paperback’s cover (with a design by Louise Fili).
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First U.K. Edition
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Peter Mendelsund's imagined paperback