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A MANUAL FOR MANUEL. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Pantheon, 1978. Octavo, black cloth. Small soft crease at lower fore edge of early leaves, else fine, no owner names. Black dust jacket has soft creases and spine tips and upper edge of rear flap, very nearly fine otherwise, colours bright, flap price intact; a nice copy of the famous Argentinian author's first political novel, about exiles in Paris with revolutionary ideas.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 32930More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
CLARA. Thirteen Short Stories and a Novel. Translated by Hortense Carpentier and J. Jorge Castello.
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976. Cloth & boards. Fine copy. Price clipped jacket has one inch creased tear to lower spine fold, smaller tears to spine tips, edges of panels; else VG, still attractive. First book in English of this noted Argentinian writer. Some of the stories have homoerotic content.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 6508More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
ON FORBIDDEN GROUND
Edition: First edition in English
London: Deutsch, 1986. Red boards. [4], (92) pp. Fine in fine jacket. A short novel about an Argentinian conscripted soldier writing to his English girl friend during the Falklands War. First book in English by this Argentinian writer who at time of publication was living in Paris, having lived in London. Translator not given, but likely P.A. Brewer, who is the credited translator in the 1987 US edition. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 17150More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
SECRET CEREMONY. Translated from the Spanish by Harriet De Onís,. Illustrated by Juan Carlos Barberis.
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Time, Inc, 1961. Cloth and boards. pp 79. Small light soil spot to inner margin of front cover, else fine. Black card slipcase has some wear along back edge, VG otherwise. First Prize Winner, Life en Espanol's Literary Contest. "Limited Edition". Noted Argentinian author.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52302More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
SOL. Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane.
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Doubleday, 1979. Cloth & boards. Fine copy. Price-clipped orange jacket has spine sunned to yellow, small chips to head of spine, VG otherwise. A magic realist novel by this Jewish Argentinian author.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 6559More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
THE GAUCHO MARTIN FIERRO. Adapted from the Spanish and Rendered into English Verse by Walter Owen with Drawings by Alberto Guiraldes
Edition: First US of this edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 38495More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
THE LAST HAPPY MEN. The Generation of 1922, Fiction, and the Argentine Reality.
Edition: First edition
Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1986. Black boards, blue endpapers. xviii, 198 pp. Fine in near fine (lightly rubbed) dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper and signed again on the half-title leaf. Review copy with slip laid in.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 18651More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
THE STRENGTH OF LOVERS. Translated from the Spanish by Louis Imbert and Jacques LeClercq
Edition: First US printing
New York: Longmans, Green, 1930. Octavo, black cloth. pp (8), 315. Much of the gilt author name on spine flaked away; small corner torn from rear free endpaper; mild foxing to page edges; else a VG jacketless copy, no owner names. "Hugo Wast" was a noted Argentinian novelist and script writer. A Conservative, Catholic nationalist, and anti-semite, he was appointed director of the National Library of Argentina in 1931, and as Minister of Public Instruction, he brought back religious instruction in the public schools after 60 previous years of secularism.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40850More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
WINTER QUARTERS. A Novel of Argentina. Translated by Nick Caistor.
Edition: First edition in English
Readers International: London, 1989. Maroon boards. 192 pp. Faint endpaper tanning, else fine. Otherwise fine jacket has corner creases to the front flap. His second book in English. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 4027More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76