Haein Song Un—Folded Whole Light / Folds Pain Memory Marking Colour A Brief History of... *** Queen Mary's Dolls' House Winter's Tale The Fragments of Parmenides The Botanical City Ornamental Digressions Hungry Bibliophiles Interstices & Intersections Perpetua and Felicity In Principio La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation Dickinson's Selected Poems Bram de Does Russian Modernism Beckett's Trilogy The Songlines Linear A to Linear Z A Bend in the River Mr. Palomar Journey Round My Room The Myth of Sisyphus Romeo and Juliet The Periodic Table The Trial Gogol's Collected Stories Brush Up Your Shakespeare Just So Stories Le Grand Meaulnes Whistler Don't Look Now *** Three Plays of the Absurd Nine Books of the Absurd *** About Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino Bound in 2015 Secker & Warburg 1985, First Edition 214 x 139 x 10 mm Full leather binding in orange goatskin with tooling in various colours. Ultra flatback. Endpapers printed using cyanotype process. Hand sewn silk headbands. In 27 short chapters, Mr. Palomar makes philosophical observations about the world around him. Calvino describes a man on a quest to quantify complex phenomena in a search for fundamental truths on the nature of being. There is a thematic index at the end of the book and all the letters and punctuation marks from the titles of sections, subsections and chapters (i.e. 1. Mr. Palomar's Vacation / 1.3.3. The Contemplation of the Stars) have been jumbled to create the cover of the book typographically. Private Collection, USA