THE NOTEBOOKS OF DON RIGOBERTO: Translated by Edith Grossman
by Vargas Llosa, Mario
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0571193099
- ISBN 13
- 9780571193097
- Seller
-
Covina, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Set in Lima, this story of a love triangle introduces Don Rigoberto, a gray insurance executive by day and a pornographer by night, his second wife, Lucrecia, and his son, Alfonso, who has relations with his stepmother, Lucrecia. Vargas Llosa (b.1936) was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with cream titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76364
- Title
- THE NOTEBOOKS OF DON RIGOBERTO: Translated by Edith Grossman
- Author
- Vargas Llosa, Mario
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571193099
- ISBN 13
- 9780571193097
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Literature, Latin America, Peru, Nobel Laureate
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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Covina, California
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