THE REAL LIFE OF ALEJANDRO MAYTA
by MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374247765
- ISBN 13
- 9780374247768
- Seller
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West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
This is a stated first edition of The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. It is a psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and the account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. The novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America, by recounting the investigation into a failed rebellion led by Alejandro Mayta and a young military officer named Vallejos in Jauja, a town in the Peruvian highlands, in 1958. In each of the novel's first nine chapters, the narrator researches the uprising, interviewing participants in the rebellion and individuals connected to its organizers.
This book was a gift; the jacket is price-clipped and the recipient wrote his name on the front endpaper--he later crossed it out, and it is small.
There is no evidence that he read it though. There is the tiniest amount of shelfwear to the jacket; the rest of the book is pristine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1131
- Title
- THE REAL LIFE OF ALEJANDRO MAYTA
- Author
- MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374247765
- ISBN 13
- 9780374247768
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- United States
- Date Published
- 1986
- Pages
- 310
- Keywords
- Peru, Rebellion, Civil War
- Bookseller catalogs
- War Stories; Politics; Central & South America;
Terms of Sale
Louise Aird
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...