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New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1992. Hardcover. Translation by Hardie St. Martin. 8vo. Quarter red cloth with silver spine lettering and orange paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 184pp. Fine/fine. Handsome first U.S. edition of this Honduran writer's first English-language release.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1991. Hardcover. Translation by Andrew Hurley. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with gilt spine lettering and black paper over boards, dust jacket. x, 435pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome and tight first U.S. edition of this thick novel by the Argentinian writer (1911-2011) and set in Buenos Aires.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989. Hardcover. Translation by Helen Lane. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with copper spine lettering and coral paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 246pp.Very good/near fine. Attractive and tight first U.S. edition of this novel by the renowned Peruvian writer, journalist and politico.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. Hardcover. Translation by Gregory Rabassa. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt and orange spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 389pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight, bright first U.S. edition of this political novel by the prolific, influential Brussels-born Argentinian novelist, short story writer and essayist (1914-84).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Hardcover. Foreword by Jorge Amado. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 146pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight and nice first edition of this novel by the renowned Brazilian writer.

New York: Rinehart & Company, 1955. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with gilt and red spine lettering and red textured paper over boards. viii, 435pp. Pictorial map. Very good. Faint bit of binding wear only, with spine sunned; internally tight and fine; lacks dust jacket. Tight, nice first edition of this Chinese-set novel by the obscure American diplomat… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Hardcover. Translation by David Pritchard with Suzanne Jill Levine. Small 4to. quarter tan cloth with gilt spine lettering and teal green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 352pp. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of this novel by the prolific Chilean writer (1924-96).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Hardcover. Translation by Andrée Conrad. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and pale green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 206pp. Fine/fine. Lovely and tight first edition of this novella trio by the prolific Chilean writer (1924-96).

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1983. Hardcover. Translation by Mary Fitton. Foreword by Jorge Luis Borges. 8vo. Quarter teal blue cloth with black spine lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. vii, 322pp. Genealogical chart. Fine/near fine. Quite nice and tight first edition of this fairy tale by the Argentinian writer (1910-84).

London: Readers International, 1988. Hardcover. Translation by Ann Wright. Introduction by John King. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. iv, 266pp, (4pp), (5pp ads). Fine/fine. Text block faintly age toned per usual. Superb, tight, bright first British edition of this novel by the Uruguayan writer (1917-86).

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 397pp. Map, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of the first novel by the noted Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist, critic and poet, signed by her in black fineline on title page. Tale of rough settlement… Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 1994. Hardcover. Translation by Clifford E. Landers. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with silver spine lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 355pp. Fine/fine. Handsome first edition of this novel by the renowned Brazilian writer. Press release and review slip laid in.

New York: Grove Press, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter terra cotta cloth with gilt spine lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 307pp. Near fine/near fine. Lovely and tight first U.S. edition of this fiction by the late Mexican novelist.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Hardcover. Translation by Helen Lane. Small 4to. Quarter salmon cloth with gilt spine lettering and salmon paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 433pp, (5pp). Fine/near fine. Superb and tight first U.S. edition of this thick fiction by the late Paraguayan novelist.

New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Hardcover. Translation by the author. Small 4to. Quarter navy blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 504pp. Fine/near fine. Superb, tight first U.S. edition of the famed Brazilian author's second novel.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Hardcover. Translation by Margaret A. Neves. 8vo. Quarter yellow cloth with black lettering and yellow paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 199pp. Near fine/fine. Spine text printed upside down (printer's error). Handsome first edition, tight and bright. Press release laid in.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. Hardcover. Translation by Dolores M. Koch. 8vo. Quarter black cloth with copper lettering and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. Near fine/near fine. First U.S. edition.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. Hardcover. Translation by Kathleen Weaver. 8vo. Ivory cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 142pp. Fine/fine. Superbly tight and bright first edition of these nonfiction sketches by the prolific and influential Brussels-born Argentinian novelist, short story writer and essayist (1914-84).

New York: Harper & Row, 1985. Hardcover. Translation by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. 8vo. Quarter black cloth with silver spine lettering and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 184pp. Fine/near fine. First U.S. edition.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1992. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter blue cloth with silver lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 307pp. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of this political thriller penned by the then-current U.S. Second lady (1989-93), wife of 44th Vice President Dan Quayle, and her sister -- and inscribed and signed huge and bold by the… Read more about this item