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NY: Knopf, 1988. Bound in black cloth, stamped in gold. Just a touch of wear to bottom boards of book. Overall, a Tight, clean copy of this, the first U.S. edition of this book by the noted author of "100 Years of Solitude". Basis for the recent movie of the same title. 348 pp..… Read more about this item

NY: Knopf, 1986. Beautiful, unread first U.S. edition of this short novel by the Nobel Prize winning author. Garcia-Marquez is the noted author of "100 Years of Solitude".. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Harper & Row, 1978. Bound in full blue cloth, stamped in gold - in colorful dust jacket. Overall, an amazingly bright, clean copy of the first U.S. edition of the author's fifth book. A book of 12 short stories. Laid in is a book review from the Associated Press. 183 pp.. First American Edition. Hard… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Bound in purple cloth, stamped in silver. Translated from the Spanish by Donald Gardner and Suzanne Jill Levine, in collaboration with the author; dust jacket shows a tiny diagonal creas to bottom of front flap. A little wear to the dust jacket at the top of the spine -- and… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1982. Omnibus edition includes "The Mystic Masseur", "The Suffrage of Elvira" and Miguel Street"; this being the true 1st U.S. printing of "Suffrage of Elvira"; A tiny bit of darkening to extremes, but has held up well. Quite difficult to find in this protected condition. 502pp.. First Omnibus Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Dutton, 1975. Bound in red boards, stamped in black in black and blue dust jacket. The first U.S. edition of this 115 pp. book by the Argentinian author. Some darkening to extremes and a small label ghost to front pastedown. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Near Fine.

NY: Grove Press, 1966. Bound in black cloth, stamped in gold. Previous owner's neat bookplate to front free endpaper. Book and dust jacket show a light bit of yellowing to extremes. Overall, a very nice copy of the first U.S. printing of the author's first book. 409 pp.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very… Read more about this item

NY: Columbia, 1977. Bound in gray cloth, stamped in red in illustrated red and white dust jacket. A 121 pp. rather scarce book by Donoso re: his thoughts on Garcia-Marquez, Paz, Borges, Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, et al. Tight, clean, first edition and scarce thus. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good ++.

New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Bound in black cloth, stamped in gold in a matching, illustrated dust jacket. Jacket shows creasing to edge of front flap. Book shows a bit of spotting to top edge. Overall, a tight, clean copy. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa; 601pp. . First American Edition.… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. Translated by Gregory Kolovakos and Ronald Christ; Tight, clean copy of the first British edition; 244pp. Beautiful copy in multicolored dustwrapper. . First British Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Bound in red cloth with gold stamping. Clean copy. 258 pp.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden; 231pp.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: FSG, 1990. Dustwrapper shows a light bit of wear to edges. Overall, a tight, bright copy of the first U.S. printing of this short novel by the noted Latin American author. 149 pp. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Knopf, 1975. Translated by Barbara Shelby; 552pp. A bit of scuffing to top edge of dust jacket, but overall, a tight clean copy in a bright dust jacket. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+.

Washington D,C.: The Americas, 1947. Scarce pamphlet bound in blue paper wraps; reprinted from 'The Americas', Vol.3, No. 3, January 1947; 16pp.. First Edition. Soft Cover. VG+/No Jacket. Pamphlet.

New York: Picador, 1999. 486pp. Tight, clean copy of this book in a bright dust jacket. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1936. Bound in thick blue cloth, stamped in gold. The first eight volumes in the set, published from 1936 through 1942. Thousands of pages by scholars on Latin America in this time period. Some of these have the previous owner's name on ffep., Some have bookplates, two books are in the original dust jackets. … Read more about this item

NY: Scribner's, 1944. Dust Jacket shows two closed tears, but is bright and shows well protected in mylar. Novel re: the Esquivel Family of New Mexico and the challenges they face as a racial minority. 368 pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG++/VG+.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, S.A., 1951. Bound in original paper covered wraps; includes "El Armino", La Salvaje", "El Viajero Sin Equipaje", and "Euridice"; text in Spanish; usual browning of pages; 325pp.. First Edition. Paper Covered Wraps. VG+/No Jacket.

New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1956. 2nd printing bound in yellow decorated buckram, sans DW, as published; scarce in hardcover; text in Spanish and English, Play is in Spanish; edited by Jose A. Balseiro and J. Riis Owre; line drawings by Lily Gruen; one line underlined in preface; previous owners name neatly penned on title page; 122pp.. Second Printing. Hard… Read more about this item