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Edition: First Mexican printing
México: Planeta. Card covers. Stated first printing, Sept., 2008. Fine copy. Inscribed by the authot to noted Canadian author Leon Rooke in 2008. A collection of essays. Text is in Spanish.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 53335More details Price: USD $34.95 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CRITICISM OF CONTEMPORARY CHICANO LITERATURE
Edition: First Edition
Berkeley, CA: Chicano Studies Libraries Publications / University of California, 1982. pp (xxiv), 295, card covers. Some rubbing to the covers, VG otherwise, no owner marks.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 44594More details Price: USD $14.95 -
A CHANGE OF SKIN. Translated by Sam Hileman.
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. Pink cloth. Sunning to the purple topstain, as usual, else fine. Price-clipped jacket is nearly fine, with crease to rear flap, faint tanning to spine, rear panel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 6640More details Price: USD $24.95 -
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 -
ALTERNATING CURRENT. Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane.
Edition: First UK printing
London: Wildwood House, 1974. Brown boards. Text paper a bit yellowed, else fine. Orange jacket price-clipped, spine only very slightly sunned, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 2716More details Price: USD $24.95 -
An Invincible Memory. Translated by the Author
Edition: First US edition
New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Cloth and boards. Fine in fine price-clipped jacket. "This vast and panoramic novel set in Brazil is once a national epic, a family saga, a rich tapestry of the life of generation upon generation covering nearly four hundred years from the arrival of the Portuguese to the present." 1.2 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 23935More details Price: USD $19.95 -
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 -
AYRES
Edition: First edition.
Mexico City: Ghurka, 1981. Grey card covers with flap, with an embossed terra cotta panel on front cover. pp (96), (2). #395 of an edition of 600 copies. Corner crease to last (blank) leaf, else fine, no owner names. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 34723More details Price: USD $34.95 -
Ballad of Another Time. Translated by Asa Zatz
Edition: First edition in English
Tulsa, OK: Council Oak Books / Hecate with the University of Tulsa, 1987. [8], (103) pp, in glossy card covers. Fine copy, no names, no creases. Puerto Rico novel. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 23848More details Price: USD $10.00 -
BAY OF ALL SAINTS AND EVERY CONCEIVABLE SIN. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Edition: First US edition
New York: Viking, 1991. Cloth & boards. Remainder stripe to lower page edges, else fine. Jacket has small soft creases, minute rubbing to spine tips, else fine. First novel of this Brazilian artist, after two books of poetry. A novel of murder, rebellion, and revenge in 17th century Brazil.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 9136More details Price: USD $14.95 -
CAMBIO DE PIEL. Próloga de Elena Poniatowska
Edition: First of this edition
Mexico: Promexa, 1979. Yellow decorated boards stamped in silver, sepia photographic endpapers. A little rubbing to the silver on cover, slight yellowing to page edges, else fine. A volume in the Clásicos de la Literatura Mexicana series.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52309More details Price: USD $19.95 -
CANAIMA: a novel Translated and Annotation by Jaime Tello. Preliminary Study by Efrain Subero.
Edition: First edition in English
Caracas: North American Association of Venezuela, 1984. Black boards, endpaper maps. pp (xxxii), (19) + colour plates.Fine copy, no previous owner names. Black dust jacket has slight rubbing; VG+. A novel of the Venezuelan jungle by an author who served as President of Venezuela in the late 1940s. 1.1 kg parce;
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 15815More 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 -
CHILDHOOD. Translated from the Portuguese by Celso de Oliveira and with an Introduction by Ashley Brown
Edition: First UK printing
London: Peter Owen, 1979. Orange boards. Light yellowing and quite minor foxing to the page edges, else fine. Black dust jacket has light rubbing, VG+ otherwise. A Brazilian classic, a novelized memoir of North-East Brazil at the turn of the 20th century.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52322More details Price: USD $19.95 -
CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.
Edition: First US printing
New York: Knopf, 1983. Brown cloth. Advance copy for review, so rubber stamped at front and with review slip laid in. With ink ownership signature of noted Canadian novelist and short story writer Leon Rooke. Fine in fine first state jacket (price sticker on front flap). Jacket flap mentions One Hundred Days of Solitude rather than One Hundred Years of Solitude,
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52994More details Price: USD $74.95 -
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 -
CONFIGURATIONS
Edition: First UK printing
London: Cape, 1971. Brown boards. Fine in fine jacket, an uncommonly nice copy, The great Mexican poet's first major collection in Britain. Translated by many poets of note, including Rukeyser, Levertov, Tomlinson, and Blackburn. Spanish and English texts on facing pages.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40516More details Price: USD $34.95 -
COPILLI, Aztec Prince
Edition: First US printing
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984. Cloth & boards. Fine copy. Price-clipped dust jacket is lightly rubbed to panels, else fine. Mexican author's first book in the US, a novel of the Aztecs.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 9519More details Price: USD $14.95