The House of the Spirits
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
Price: $600.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin. Small quarto. 368pp. Trifle sunned at the bottom edge else fine in lightly toned and moderately worn, very good or better dust jacket with a tiny interior dampstain that doesn't show through. Nicely Inscribed on a front blank: "Isabel Allende. in celebration of the extravagant spirits of this world [drawing of a flower]." The true first American edition with line 11 on p.147 incomplete.
Item #535167
ISBN: 0394539079
Isabel Allende
birth name: Isabel Allende
born: 8/2/1942
Biography
Chilean writer in the magic realist tradition who is considered one of the first successful woman novelists in Latin America. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore