Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954. Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 191pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket modestly toned on the spine and lower panel. The masters are José Lins do Rego, Jorge Amado, Graciliano Ramos, and Rachel de Queiroz. More
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Barcelona: Seix Barral / Biblioteca Formentor, (1966). Softcover. First edition. Cover by Antoni Tapies. Small octavo. 430pp. Wrappers with moderate toning and wear, textblock heavily toned, just about very good in pictorial wrappers. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1969). Hardcover. First edition. Translated by Darwin J. Flakoll and Claribel Alegría. Illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Tall octavo. 127pp. Introduction and brief biographies in English, poetry in parallel Spanish and English text. Remainder mark on topedge else fine in price-clipped, near fine dust jacket..... More
(Liverpool): Francis Cairns, (1982). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 166pp. Trifle bumped at the corners and spine ends, near fine in modestly worn, very good dust jacket with a lightly toned spine and unnecessary interior tape reinforcements at the folds. Liverpool Monographs in Hispanic Studies 1. (N.B. Verse is printed in..... More
London: Peter Owen, (1966). Hardcover. First English edition. Translated, with an introduction by Helen Caldwell. Octavo. xx, 287pp. Top corners gently bumped else fine in price-clipped and moderately worn, very good dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine. More
New York: American Sports Publishing Co., 1902. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. 232 + schedules + ads pp. Illustrated with team photos and individual players. Bound in blue buckram gilt. Front wrap bound in but with loss and old professional repair, rear wrap lacking. good. More
New York: Horizon Press, (1958). Hardcover. First American edition. Light foxing on topedge, board edges slightly sunned, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a lightly toned spine, and tiny nicks at the crown. The fifth and final book of Hanley’s acclaimed Furys Saga. More
New York: Clarkson Potter, (1996). Hardcover. Folio. Photographs by Margaret Courtney-Clarke. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Children's book illustrated with photographs about a seven-year-old West African boy who learns to weave Kente cloth. More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1946). Hardcover. First edition. Foot of spine lightly bumped with a tiny scuff mark, else fine in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with tiny chips and tears, and moderate rubbing. More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1911. Hardcover. First American edition. Translated by Lee M. Hollander. Quarter cloth (supplied?) and papercovered boards with printed paper label. Neat owner's name, offsetting from a clipping on the first leaf of text, a bit of wear at the extremities, a very good copy. Play by..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1988). Hardcover. First American edition. Translation, reader's reference, and annotated bibliography by Margaret Sayers Peden. Foreword by James W. Symington. Prologue by Carlos Fuentes. Octavo. 156pp. Fine in trifle worn, very near fine dust jacket. "Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility..... More
(New York): Beechhurst Press, (1953). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Diego Rivera. Octavo. 144pp. Topedge a bit sunned else fine in toned and lightly soiled, good only dust jacket with several tiny nicks and tears and loss at the spine ends. The fictional story of young Pancho Pacheco. More
Chicago: Swallow Press, (1971). Hardcover. First edition. Translated by Edwin Honig. Introduction by Octavio Paz. Tall octavo. 170pp. Light wear, small abrasion on rear pastedown, near fine in rubbed and edgeworn, good only dust jacket with a heavily sunned spine and two small internal tape reinforcements. Inscribed by translator Edwin..... More
(New York): Viking, (1986). Hardcover. First American edition. Translated by Andrew Hurley. Tall octavo. 413pp. Rear endleaves with some creasing (binder's error) else fine in trifle worn, fine dust jacket. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in lightly rubbed near fine dust jacket with a few tiny tears. Contributors include including Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Ernest Hemingway, Peter Taylor, James Thurber, Wallace Stegner, Jean Stafford, John Cheever, and others..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1924. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 135pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a couple of smudges on the front panel, and small tears on the rear panel. More
Salvador, [Brazil]: [circa 1965?]. Unbound. Typed Letter Signed. Typed on Academia Brasileira stationery measuring approximately 6¼" x 9". Old folds for mailing, two tiny faint stains, about fine. A letter from Amado to New Jersey architect J. Frederick Cook, Jr. Amado thanks Cook for his letter, agrees to sign his..... More
New York: Holiday House, Inc., (1947). Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. 114pp. Illustrated. Illustrated paper over boards. Fine in near fine dust jacket with small tears and nicks at the crown. Signed by the author. Attractive children's book in nice condition. More
Salvador, [Brazil]: 1970. Unbound. Typed Letter Signed. Typed on Amado's thin stationery measuring approximately 8" x 10½". Old folds for mailing else fine. A letter from Amado to New Jersey architect J. Frederick Cook, Jr. Amado apologizes that Cook's letter took about four months to reach him, agrees to sign..... More
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, (1898). Hardcover. First American edition. Small octavo. 121pp. Green cloth illustrated in black. Small, neat owner name and date on front fly, corners slightly bumped, near fine. More
HongKong: The Oriental Publishers, (1961). Hardcover. Third printing. Octavo. 340pp. Illustrated. Blue cloth illustrated and titled in gilt. Signed by the author. Spine lettering dull, edges of the boards a bumped and rubbed, very good or better. More
New York: Vantage Press, (2000). Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 87pp. Trade paperback. Illustrated. Fine. Self-published book about the original Mets in the 1880s. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Softcover. Uncorrected proof of the American edition. Translated by Barbara Shelby Morello. With a couple of inked notes on the cover and the title changed from *Tieta of Agreste* to *Tieta* on the cover, spine, half-title, and title page. Spine toned, modest wear, very..... More
New York: Grove Press, (1974). Softcover. Reprint. Translated from the Spanish by Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia. Parallel Spanish and English text. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Review copy for this edition with the slip laid in. Evergreen E-638. More
Columbia, South Carolinaqq: Camden House, Inc., (1984). Hardcover. Facsimile edition. Introduction by baseball historian John Thorn. Octavo. 62 + ads pp. Illustrated. Brown cloth gilt. Fine. Copy number 440 of 500 numbered copies of this facsimile edition. Important book on baseball. More