CALVINO, Italo. L.A.S. to Claude Rameil,... - Lot 17 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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CALVINO, Italo. L.A.S. to Claude Rameil,... - Lot 17 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
CALVINO, Italo. L.A.S. to Claude Rameil, friend of Boris Vian and Queneau. Rome, June 8, 1981. 2 pp. in-8. Letterhead of the Giulio Einaudi Publishing House in Turin. With envelope. Italo Calvino writes the introduction to the Italian edition of Raymond Queneau. Overwhelmed with work, he responds only belatedly to Claude Rameil's request. "The collection of Raymond Queneau will be published, I believe, in September by the Einaudi publishing house in Turin. The title will be Segni, cifre e lettere, i.e. Sticks, numbers and letters with the substitution of Sticks (which gave problems to the translation) by Signs. I am still waiting for the proofs of the French translation of my introduction [...]".