eCatalog 6 contains 58 items from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books, and includes interesting and unusual novels and poems in both English and Spanish, association copies, and more!
Download PDF of Latin American Literature![Item #538462 Seven Serpents and Seven Moons [with] Autograph Letter Signed. Demetrio AGUILERA-MALTA](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/538462.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673888625)
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. Hardcover. First American edition. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Tall octavo. 305pp. Topedge lightly foxed else fine in moderately worn, very good dust jacket with a bit of light internal foxing at the spine. Although not marked, this is noted translator and..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1943). Hardcover. First American edition. Translated by Harriet de Onís. Small octavo. 242pp. Fine in a trifle worn, very near fine dust jacket with a small faint stain at the bottom of the lower flap fold. A handsome copy of this wartime-printed novel, the author's..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1944). Hardcover. First American edition. Translated by Delia Goetz. Illustrated by Juan Oliver. Small octavo. 176pp. A trifle worn at the spine base, else fine in near fine dust jacket lightly toned and soiled on the lower panel. A handsome copy of this wartime-printed..... More
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Iman, 1937. Softcover. Later printing. "Version directa," with introduction and notes by Raul Navarro. Small octavo. 364, [2] ads pp. Text in Spanish. Printed wrappers with moderate wear and soiling, slightly cocked and the first couple of leaves with some spotting and short chips and tears, about..... More
![Item #542257 Poemas Interdictos [Interdicted Poems]. Manuel Maples ARCE](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/542257.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676919142)
Jalapa, Ver., Mexico: Ediciones de Horizonte, 1927. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. Reproduction of a color portrait of Arce by Leoplodo Méndez tipped-in. Printed wrappers in dust jacket, textblock with topedges unopened. Light toning on the wrappers and endleaves from the dust jacket, and light scattered foxing, very good or better..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1930). Hardcover. First English edition. Translated by E. Munguía, Jr. Preface by Carleton Beals. Octavo. 221, [2]pp. Neat and easily erasable owner name ("Katherine B. Haskel, London, 1935") on front pastedown. Textblock edges a bit foxed and with a small stain on the topedge not affecting the..... More
![Item #535828 Los de Abajo [The Underdogs]. Mariano AZUELA](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/535828.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659125879)
El Paso, Texas: Imprinto "El Paso del Norte" 1916. Softcover. First separate edition. Small octavo. 143pp. Printed wrappers. Cover professionally reattached and some minor paper conservation has been performed, acidic paper toned, title page with a bit of marginal loss, a well-preserved copy of an extremely fragile and important publication..... More
Boston: Meadow Publishing Company, [1960?]. Softcover. First American edition. Translated by Tita Caistor. Cover by Jay Campbell. Octavo. 378pp. Wrappers with light toning and soil, staples a bit oxidized, a near fine copy. Comrade V arrives at the hacienda, bringing Communist and union-friendly ideas with him. "A South American Western!"..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1985). Hardcover. First edition, hardcover issue. Prologue by Jorge Luis Borges. Translated by Ruth L.C. Simms. Illustrated by Norah Borges de Torres. Tall octavo. 237pp. Fine in price-clipped else fine dust jacket. Very scarce in the hardcover issue. More
Madrid: Editorial España, 1933. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 240pp. Black and white plates. Text in Spanish. Printed wrappers with topedge unopened. Light wear, spine toned and with some loss and short splits, very good and sound. The great Cuban author's first book, the first version of which was completed in..... More
(México) [City]: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, (1969). Softcover. First edition. Quarto. Heavily illustrated in black and white. Text in Spanish. Two text blocks (split horizontally) in French-folded pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn, very near fine. Warmly Inscribed to Anaïs Nin on the title page: "Para Anais Nin, de mi admiracion y...... More
(Willimantic, Connecticut): Curbstone Press, (1984). Hardcover. First edition. Translated by Richard Schaaf. Fine in about fine dust jacket with a bit of light wear along the topedge. Advance Review Copy with publisher's material laid in. Posthumously-published collection of poems by the itinerant El Salvadorian Marxist who was assassinated just shy..... More
Buenos Aires: [no publisher], 1960. Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 105, [5]pp., bound and paginated in the Yiddish style with a tipped-in errata slip as well as title pages in Spanish and English in the rear. Text in Yiddish. Illustrated with a half-tone portrait of the book's dedicatee, "my dear..... More
Austin: New Latin Quarter Editions / (Nefertiti Head Press), (1979). Hardcover. First edition. Translated by Kenneth D. Jackson and Albert Bork. Afterword by Haroldo de Campos. Spine ends gently bumped else fine in printed boards. Nicely Inscribed by translator Kenneth D. Jackson to a noted American poet and translator: "For..... More
London: Lovat Dickson Limited, (1934). Hardcover. First English edition, preceding the American edition. Translated from the Portuguese by Charles Duff. Octavo. 340pp. Tiny bookseller stamp and owner signature on front fly, else fine in price-clipped and modestly worn, very good or better dust jacket with several nicks and tiny tears..... More
![Item #537316 Guasinton: Relatos y Cronicas [Guasinton: Stories and Chronicles]. Jose de la CUADRA](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/537316.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673888624)
Quito, Ecuador: Talleres Gráficos de Educación, 1938. Softcover. First edition. Introduction by Isaac J. Barera. Octavo. 163pp. Text in Spanish. Pictorial wrappers worn with a bit of loss at spine ends and top corner of cover, tiny wormhole in the top margin throughout, about very good. An interesting production by..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Hardcover. First American edition. Translated by Jocasta Goodwin. Octavo. 262pp. Tiny faint label shadow on front fly, upper shoulder with what appears to be a bit of a light glue stain, foredge very lightly foxed, a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket..... More
![Item #536621 El Obsceno Pájaro de la Noche [The Obscene Bird of Night]. José DONOSO](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/536621.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673888621)
Barcelona: Biblioteca Breve / Editorial Seix Barral, (1970). Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 543, [5]pp. Text in Spanish. French-folded printed wrappers with two faint vertical creases on the spine else fine in modestly worn and soiled, very good or better dust jacket. A very presentable copy of one of the great..... More
![Item #534931 Mi Descanso [My Rest]. Santiago FALS](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/534931.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673039771)
Santiago de Cuba: Arroyo Hermanos, (1929). Softcover. First edition. Prologue by Fernando G. y G. de Peralta. Cover by "J.H. Gm." Text in Spanish. Octavo. 146pp. Illustrated with a portrait of Fals in a Masonic sash. Printed wrappers. Wrappers foxed and stained, pages toned, tiny foredge nick and a couple..... More
![Item #538743 Imagen de Varona [Images of Varona]. José FERRER CANALES](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/538743.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676919139)
Santiago de Cuba: Universidad de Oriente, 1964. Softcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 348, [2] index pp. With a mimeographed "post scriptum" laid in. Text in Spanish. Illustrated with a portrait of Enrique José Varona and facsimiles. Modest wear and toning, very good or better in French-folded wrappers and folded, unprinted..... More
![Item #534842 [Offprint]: El Realismo Mágico en la Ficción Narrativa Hispanoamericana [Magical...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/534842.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673039770)
Guadalajara, México: Et Cætera, [1957]. Softcover. Offprint. Translated by Miguel Rodríguez Puga (misspelled "Juga"). Small slim quarto. 99-108pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Text in Spanish. Wrappers with tiny chips at the bottom corners and a couple of very short splits, staples lightly oxidized and paper evenly toned, a very good example..... More
New York: Monthly Review Press, (1983). Hardcover. First American edition. Translated by Judith Brister. Octavo. 194pp. Fine in lightly worn about fine dust jacket. Signed by Galeano on the front fly with a drawing. More
![Item #530486 [Large Publisher's Advertisement]: Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/530486-1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673039770)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [circa 1988]. Unbound. Large bifolium, measuring approximately 17½" x 24". "Bookish" in clothbacked papercovered boards, with the cover die-cut to show a reproduction of the photograph by Edward Steichen from the jacket art. Opening the bifolium, one sees a reproduction of the dust jacket art..... More
London: Abelard-Schuman, (1959). Hardcover. First UK edition revised. Illustrated by Victor L. Rebuffo. Translated by Prudencio de Pereda. Octavo. 169pp. Spine ends gently bumped and lightly toned else fine in a near fine dust jacket modestly toned at the spine and folds. *The Jewish Guachos of the Pampas*, according to..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1966). Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo. 278pp. Trifle worn at the extremities else fine in lightly worn, about fine dust jacket. Warmly Inscribed to noted translator, scholar and critic of Latin American literature Donald A. Yates and his wife using the entirety of the front..... More