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ANTOLOGÍA.
Santiago de Chile: Zig-Zag, 1953. 3rd edition (first was in 1940). Blue cloth lettered in black. 269, [3] pp. Light sunning to front cover and two small light spots to spine; front free endpaper has a Santiago bookseller's ticket and a 1955 ink inscription; else a VG clean and unworn copy. The first collected edition of the poetry of the great Chilean poet who won the Nobel Prize in 1945.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 13884More details Price: USD $24.95 -
ARAUCO TAMED. by the Licentiate Pedro de Oña. Translated into English verse by Charles Maxwell Lancaster and Paul Thomas Manchester
Edition: First edition
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1948. Green cloth. pp (283). Text in double columns. Ink owner name at front, else a VG+ jacketless copy. An epic poem by the first native-born Chilean poet, it praises the military deeds of Hurtado de Mendoza, Governor of Chile and Indian fighter.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52315More details Price: USD $19.95 -
CANTOS POR DESENTIERRO: comentarios, nootas y grabados de Ruth Gonzales Vergara
Edition: First Edition
Santiago, Chile: Authors, 1974. Folio, pp [2], (2), 38, text mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, cream card covers. Crude illustrations. Covers a bit dusty, with tan soil spots on rear cover, curls to lower outer corners of covers, VG otherwise. Inscribed by Ruth Gonzalez at front. Mostly poetry. Very uncommon.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 41815More details Price: USD $45.00 -
CHARLESTON & Other Stories. Translated by Andree Conrad.
Edition: First US edition
Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. #144/200 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Light rubbing to delicate spine gilt lettering, else fine in green cloth & boards slipcase.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 430More details Price: USD $39.95 -
CORONATION. Translated from the Spanish by Jocasta Goodwin
Edition: First US printing
New York: Knopf, 1965. Octavo, dark blue cloth and green boards, black top page edges. Light sticker shadow on front free endpaper, just a few small tan spots to endpapers, else fine, no owner names, top page edges dark and unfaded. The George Salter dust jacket has shallow chips and one small tear ends of lightly sunned spine; very small chips to outer corners; nicks to edges; small chip to lower front panel; VG otherwise, flap price intact. First novel of the reknowed Chilean author, it won the William Faulkner Foundation Prize in 1962. Set in Santiago,
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 39108More details Price: USD $34.95 -
HOUSE OF MIST
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Farrar, Straus, 1947. Octavo, green cloth. Yellowing to page edges, else fine, no owner names. George Salter dust jacket has both corners of front flap clipped; spine lightly darkened, with slight rubbing to folds; rubbing and small corner chips at ends; rear panel lightly soiled and yellowed, with large tears to upper outer corner internally repaired with old, now yellowed, cellotape; yellowing and rubbing to flap folds; in all, good, but still respectable in appearance. The highly regarded Chilean author's first novel, La última niebla (1935). Jacket blurb by her friend Jorge Luis Borges ("Stories of melancholy magic."). Bombal was living with Pablo Neruda when she wrote the book. She re-wrote it herself in English for this edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 39206More details Price: USD $29.95 -
IN STRANGE COMPANY: A Story of Chile and the Southern Seas. Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood
London: Ward, Lock, no date. A later printing. Octavo, blue pictorial cloth gilt. Pp viii, 200, 12 (ads) + 3 plates. Tanning and mild foxing to page edges, else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 32959More details Price: USD $24.95 -
ISABEL SANDOVAL MODAS: comedia en dos actos
Santiago, Chile: Nascimento, 1929. A later printing (first was in 1915). Octavo, 56 pp, in cream card covers. Short tears at spine ends, text paper inevitably toned, else a VG copy, leaves unopened at edges. Armando Moock Bosquet (1894-1942) was a prolific Chilean playwright. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 41871More details Price: USD $14.95 -
JEMMY BUTTON. Translated from the Spanish by Mary and Fred del Villar
Edition: First editon in English
New York: Macmillan, 1954. Grey cloth, endpaper maps. Light yellowing to page edges, very light spine sunning, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has nicks and very small chips, mild spine sunning, VG othewise. An historical novel of Tierra del Fuego. Chilean author.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52327More details Price: USD $14.95 -
OF LOVE AND SHADOWS. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
Edition: First edition in English.
New York: Knopf, 1987. Cloth and boards. Just a little leaned, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. The noted Chilean novelist's second book to be translated into English.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52296More details Price: USD $18.95 -
TEN PASTORAL PSALMS. With English Versions by Bernardo Garcia & Matthew Zion, & Drawings by Suzanne Vanlandingham. [DECALOGS DE LOS PASTORS].
Edition: First edition in English
No place [San Francisco]: Kayak, 1967. [32] pp, unpaged, in card covers. Half title leaf and last (blank) leaf are on tissue paper, one tissue guard inserted in text, text on beige card stock. Short creased tears to top edge of printed paper coverng on front cover; soft bruise to lower outer corner throughout; some ink marks on rear cover where this copy was stacked on top of another copy on which the ink was not yet dry; VG copy otherwise. Edition of 500 copies. Erotic writing and drawings, with Spanish and English text on facing pages. Important Chilean exile poet, novelist, and critic.Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 14107More details Price: USD $29.95 -
THE DARK ROOM and other poems.
Edition: First US edition
New York: New Directions, 1978. 147 pp, card covers. Text paper lightly toned, VG+ otherwise, no owner names. Chilean poet, winner of the prestigious Casa de las Americas Prize. Bilingual text. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 44595More details Price: USD $9.95 -
THE DEVIL'S PIT and other stories. Translated by Esther S. Dillon and Angel Flores
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48215More details Price: USD $34.95 -
THE HISTORY TEACHER IN ECSTACY: poems
Edition: First printing
No place (Montreal): Split quotation, 1989. Card covers. pp [2], (2), (56), [4]. Foreword by Jorge Etcheverry. Light cover rubbing. Poetry by this Chilean exile to Canada. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 51362More details Price: USD $14.95