mario vargas llosa alfred mac (16 résultats)

Etat : New. pp. 160 Reprint Edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Marginally fictional tale of a Peruvian revolutionary. 310p.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 310 pages. Dj worn. Text foxed. Ex library copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1986 Faber UK 1st Edition, Very Good/Near Fine DJ in Mylar, clean & tight, dustjacket has creases at top & bottom edges on rear panel- in new Mylar with price intact, no markings found, not a remainder, moderate tanning to textblock- reads fine.

1st Collier (paperback) edition. Light foxing along pages edges (not effecting text or margins) otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete very good paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. 1st U.S. Edition. First US edition, hardcover, has a small lean to the binding, light sunning to the spine and head, slight bumps to the spine ends, and a hint of shelfwear to the cover edges and corners. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, clean Very Good+ copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has slight bumps to the spine ends, minor wear to the corners and edges, some faint rubbing to the covers, and very faint sunning to the spine. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Etat : Near fine in near fine jacket. First printing. Inscribed first UK edition of this 1950s whodunnit following the investigation into the murder of a young airman. 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original black paper baords. In original unclipped (£9.95) pictorial jacket. [6], 152 pages. Inscribed by Llosa in blue on title page: "A Fernando E Vega, / "el coleccionista," / con un abrazo" / Mario Vargas Llosa." Jacket with trace rubbing. Faint toning to leaves. Crisp and bright.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 150 pages. Published in 1990. The author's tenth novel. One of Mario Vargas Llosa's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "In Praise of The Stepmother" in a felicitous English translation. His homage to the erotic novel and to Gustave Flaubert, one of several homages to Flaubert as stylist and as sensualist, which began with "The Perpetual Orgy" (1975) and culminated with "The Bad Girl" (2007), a "remake" of "Madame Bovary". Mario Vargas Llosa was the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refused to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". He considered himself an heir to the great European cultural tradition yet his work is firmly grounded in Latin America's (not just his native Peru's) history and mythology. His aesthetics and literary practice - Vargas Llosa embraced and appropriated every literary genre - prompted Roberto Bolano, his greatest successor, to consider him an inescapable influence, among a handful of others, on contemporary Latin-American literature. That is to say, to be a Latin-American writer is to become a Classical master of language and a Modernist artist, writing in language of the highest quality and reinventing literary form and convention at the same time. Literary genres are inventions of a particular culture's idea of imagination and storytelling, "templates" that Vargas Llosa transformed into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase). An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time even though he rarely did public signings. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374175837. Signed by Author.

Etat : Very good plus. Inscribed uncorrected proof of the first US edition of this tragicomic portrait of a modern revolutionary by the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist. 8.75'' x 6''. Original blue wrappers. [6], 282 pages. Inscribed by Llosa on front fly leaf: "Para Fernando / E. Vega, / afectuosamente / Mario Vargas Llosa / 9-7-93." Light wear to wrappers.

First printing. Inscribed first US edition of this 1950s whodunnit following the investigation into the murder of a young airman. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original quarter light green cloth, taupe paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($14.95) pictorial jacket designed by Honi Werner. [6], 152 pages. Inscribed by Llosa on title page: "Al doctor Fernando E. Vega, / en testimonio de amistad" / Mario Vargas Llosa / 12-1-93." Jacket with light rubbing, touch of toning. Book with faint toning to board edges, minor bumping to top corners. Tight. Very good plus in near fine jacket.

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); gray cloth and paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 310, [2]pp. Hint of sunning to upper board edges, else Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with a single small adhesive strip from an old mylar protector at upper spine on verso. A novel set "in the Peru of the near future, a country in the throes of an insurgency pitting a Cuban-Bolivian-backed revolutionary army against a failing Lima government and the U.S. Marines" (from the front flap). First published in Spainsh two years prior under the title La Historia de Mayta.