Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Lectures on writing which Calvino was preparing to give at the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard in 1985-86. Includes a brief introduction by his wife in which she notes that these were an obsession with him in the last year of his life; he had planned on writing the 6th memo on "consistency" at Cambridge, and so his untimely death prevented this one from being written. Frontispiece. Translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-674810406.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2002). First edition - Translated from Italian by Michael Moore. The first book by this author to be published in the US, it is the story of a thirteen year old boy who lives in Montedidio (God's Mountains) in Naples in 1960. It is a year of discovery when he begins to become a man, has his first crush while working in a carpentry workshop. 168 pp.

New York: Norton, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book by this Nobel laureate, originally published in 1925 and now published in a new translation with a preface and commentary by William Arrowsmith. A bilingual edition with the original Italian on the left, the English translation on the right. xxvi, 269 pp. ISBN: 0-393-028038.

Torino, Italy: S.T.E.N. Societ Tipografico-Editrice Nazionale, 1911. Hardcover - Nuova ristampa riveduta e corretta dall'autore. Indice. Text in Italian. 180 pp.