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The Law of Love
by Esquivel, Laura
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0517706814
- ISBN 13
- 9780517706817
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996. BW3 - DJ is mylar protected. A first American edition book dated and signed by the author in very good+ condition with a dust jacke tin very good condition. Dated and signed by the author in black ink on the title page. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps, with its music CD still sealed in its envelope with dark blue paper covered boards quarter bound in brown cloth with metallic copper lettering and a graphic on the spine with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some very, very light edge wear along the top and bottom spine edges and the front bottom right corner. Dramatic color illustrations by Miguelanxo Prado, Spain's premier graphic novel artist. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. A romantic and humorous love story. Compared to a Mexican 'Midsummer Night's Dream'. An astroanalyst travels through 14,000 past lives to reunite with her twin soul in a romantic adventure that stretches from the fall of Montezuma's Mexico to the 23rd century. By the author of "Like Water for Chololate," "Malinche," and "Swift As Desire." Heavily illustrated with full collor, full page, comic book style illustrations. Music CD, 266p.. Signed by Author. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Prado, Miguelanxo. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Originally published in 1990, Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate) won Laura Esquivel international acclaim. The film based on the book, with a screenplay by Laura Esquivel, swept the Ariel awards of the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures, winning eleven in all, and went on to become the largest grossing foreign film ever released in the United States. In 1994 Like Water for Chocolate won the prestigious ABBY award, which is given annually by the American Booksellers Association to the book the members of the organization most enjoyed hand-selling. The book has been translated into thirty languages and there are over three million copies in print worldwide. Ms. Esquivel lives in Mexico.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW13065
- Title
- The Law of Love
- Author
- Esquivel, Laura
- Illustrator
- Prado, Miguelanxo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0517706814
- ISBN 13
- 9780517706817
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Mexican Literature Mexican Author Mexican Writer Literature Literary Fiction Magical Realism 96-22952
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Translations; Literature / Latin American Literature; Fiction / Modern Fiction Firsts;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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