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POINTS OF DEPARTURE: new stories from Mexico. Translated by Gustavo V. Segado
Edition: First printing
San Francisco: City Lights, 2001. Glossy card covers. Fine copy. Inscribed by the editor to a noted Canadian literary couple.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 53102More details Price: USD $18.95 -
QUARUP. Translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Selby
Edition: First US edition
New York: Knopf, 1970. Yellow cloth. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Brazilian author,
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52312More details Price: USD $19.95 -
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 -
SELECTED POEMS. A Bilingual Edition with Translations by Sonja Karsen.
Edition: First edition in English
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964. Beige cloth. [2], 155, [3] pp. Price-clipped dust jacket has minor rubbing to head of spine, else fine. Advance copy for review, with slip of the Canadian distributor laid in. Spanish text with facing English translation. 44 poems of this Mexican poet.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 14611More details Price: USD $18.95 -
SERGEANT GETÚLIO
Edition: First UK printing
London: Deutsch, 1980. Black cloth. Fine copy. Jacket has some minor rubbing, soft ripples to front panel, else fine. First published in 1971 (and in 1978 in the US), it won Brazil's highest literary award, the Jabuti Prize for best novel of the year. Contains a 3+ page foreword by Jorge Amado.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43193More details Price: USD $18.95 -
SHOWDOWN. Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Bantam, 1988. Black cloth and boards. Fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52298More details Price: USD $14.95 -
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 -
SPIKS: stories. Translated and with an Introduction by Victoria Ortiz
Edition: First US printing
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973. Red cloth. pp 92. Light yellowing to page edges, else a fine bright copy. Important Puerto Rican author, his second book
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52319More details Price: USD $39.95 -
STORIES FROM EL BARRIO
Edition: First edition
New York: Knopf, 1978. Black pictorial boards, without jacket, as issued. Touch of rubbing to spine tips, small ink stroke to bottom page edges, else fine. First edition, library issue. Uncommon collection of 8 short stories of Spanish Harlem in New York, by the Puerto Rican-American author of the popular DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS, which was about his experiences with gangs and drugs (he served 7 years in prison).
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42More details Price: USD $24.95 -
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 BOOK OF QUESTIONS: translated by William O'Daly
Port Townsend, WA, c 2001: Copper Canyon Press. "Second Edition". Glossy card covers. Poems in Spanish with English translations. Small tan spot to lower page edges, else fine. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 53092More details Price: USD $7.95 -
THE CARDBOARD HOUSE. Translated & with an introduction by Katherine Silver
Edition: First printing in English
St. Paul, Minnesota: Greywolf, 1990. Cloth and boards. Fine in fine jacket. Advance copy for review with promo sheets laid in. Originally published in Spanish in 1928, this is his only complete work of prose. Adán, a Peruvian, is considered one of the greatest Latin American poets. He succumbed to alcohol early and spent much of his life in institutions.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 52295More details Price: USD $18.95 -
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 EDGE OF THE STORM (Al Filo del Agua).: a novel. Translated by Ethel Brinton. Illustrated by Julio Prieto
Edition: First edition in English
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963. White pictorial cloth. Fine in a bit used jacket, with small rubbed chips to spine ends, price-clipped, internal tape repairs, good-VG. Important Mexican author.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52326More details Price: USD $19.95 -
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 -
THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Edition: First US printing
New York: Knopf, 1990. Green cloth. Fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43213More details Price: USD $18.50 -
THE GODS, THE LITTLE GUYS AND THE POLICE. Translated from the Spanish by Toby Talbot
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Cloth & boards. Fine in fine jacket. This novel, which won the Premio Casa de los Americos, is a comic and mordant tale of political terrorism in Argentina in the mid-1970s. Mexican author.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52303More details Price: USD $19.95 -
THE GREEN HOUSE. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
Edition: First edition in English.
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. Blue cloth, gold endpapers, green top edges. A fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket a bit worn at spine ends, sticker stain on front flap, VG otherwise, no fading, flap price intact. The Peruvian author's second novel, it won the 1967 Romulo Gallegos Award, the most important Latin American literary prize.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 34320More details Price: USD $29.95 -
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