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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1950]. First American Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's pictorial boards, blue-green topstain, in pictorial dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig; [6],177pp. Moderate wear to jacket and board margins, lighter portions of both boards and jacket rather significantly toned, light foxing to textblock margins, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. The Argentinian author's first novel, originally published in 1948 in the original Spanish as "El Tunel" and re-translated into English in the 1980s as "The Tunnel.