Edité par NY: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1990
ISBN 10 : 0374175837 ISBN 13 : 9780374175832
Vendeur : Lorrin Wong, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, Etats-Unis
1st printing of 1st edition. A brief gift inscription of previous owner on front end paper otherwise a clean near fine hard cover book/ edgewear otherwise very good price clipped dust jacket.
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Edité par Avon, 1985, 1985
Vendeur : Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
First edition, first printing Very close to fine stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text throughout. The original paperback edition - Avon trade paperback.
Edité par Avon [1983] January 1983, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0380637278 ISBN 13 : 9780380637270
Vendeur : Isle of Books, Bozeman, MT, Etats-Unis
Paper Back. Etat : Good.
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Edité par aventura, 1986
ISBN 10 : 0394747763 ISBN 13 : 9780394747767
Vendeur : Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Trade Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.
Edité par Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Quality Paperback Club, 1982
Vendeur : Irolita Books, Aurora, ON, Canada
Paperback. Etat : VERY GOOD. Light crack across spine. Pages are tanned. 374 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
Edité par Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 1994
ISBN 10 : 0374155097 ISBN 13 : 9780374155094
Vendeur : Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First US Edition.
Edité par Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1987(86) New York, 1987
ISBN 10 : 0374520623 ISBN 13 : 9780374520625
Vendeur : Prairie Archives, Springfield, IL, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : MWABA
Good plus or better, light general wear, lightly soiled. 2nd Ptg trade paper Label residue on covers.
Edité par Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1982
ISBN 10 : 0374106916 ISBN 13 : 9780374106911
Vendeur : Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, Etats-Unis
Wraps. Etat : Near Fine. Gift quality copy, appears unread, bright and tight. All page edges are straight and sound. Illustrated front cover. 374pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.
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Edité par Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1986) New York, 1986
ISBN 10 : 0374230773 ISBN 13 : 9780374230777
Vendeur : Prairie Archives, Springfield, IL, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : MWABA
Edition originale
Very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket, price clipped. First Printing Hardcover Jacket edges sunned.
Edité par NY Farrar Straus Giroux (1990)., 1990
Vendeur : Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
VG in VG DJ. Erotic novel about the mysterious nature of happiness and the corrupting power of innocence by Peru's foremost writer. Illustrated by Painting reproductions. 1st U.S. ed.
Edité par Farrar Straus Giroux
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.
Edité par Farrar Straus Giroux
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.
Edité par MacMillan Publishers, 2007
ISBN 10 : 0312427247 ISBN 13 : 9780312427245
Vendeur : INDOO, Avenel, NJ, Etats-Unis
Etat : As New. Unread copy in mint condition.
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Edité par Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989
Vendeur : EKER BOOKS, Bryantown, MD, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Fine.
Edité par New York : Penguin Books, 1991., New York, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0140157085 ISBN 13 : 9780140157086
Vendeur : Inkberry Books, Niwot, CO, Etats-Unis
paperback. Etat : Fine. 149 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edité par Faber & Faber, London, 1990
ISBN 10 : 057114134X ISBN 13 : 9780571141340
Vendeur : Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Grey Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First UK Edition. Originally published in Spanish as Elogio de la madrastre", (viii), 149pp, illustrated with colour plates, grey cloth with cream spine lettering, slight wear to edges otherwise in very good, unclipped condition. Size: 8vo. Modern Literature.
Edité par Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 1984
ISBN 10 : 0374286515 ISBN 13 : 9780374286514
Vendeur : Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good, Price Clipped. American First. First Printing stated on verso of title page; a bit of edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Book.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, London, 1990
ISBN 10 : 0571152082 ISBN 13 : 9780571152087
Vendeur : Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Andrzej Klimowski (Jacket illustration) (illustrateur). First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. ***Near fine in orange boards with black titles to the spine. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Boards clean and unmarked. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Clean pages although the paper stock has tanned lightly. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which retains the original publisher's price of £12.99. The dustwrapper is complete with no chips or tears, but please note that there is creasing to the top edge of the back panel. Very light edge wear and the spine is slightly faded. Dustwrapper bright. ***246 pages. 242mm x 157mm. ***'A visitor from Peru, happening upon an exhibition of photographs from the Amazon jungle in an obscure Florentine picture gallery, finds his attention drawn to a picture of a tribal storyteller seated among a circle of Michiguenga Indians. There is something odd about the storyteller. He is too light skinned to be an Indian. As the visitor stares at the photograph, it dawns on him that he knows this man. The storyteller is his long lost friend Saul Zuratas, his classmate from university who was thought to have disappeared in Israel. A brilliant and compelling study of the world of the primitive and its place in our own modern lives.' (Quotes taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A first impression of the first UK edition, in very good condition, albeit with some creasing to the dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
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Edité par Faber & Faber, London, 1994
ISBN 10 : 0571169694 ISBN 13 : 9780571169696
Vendeur : Book Orphanage, McCrae, VIC, Australie
hardcover, 6¼" x 9½", with dust jacket 532 pages This is a two-fold book: a memoir of one of Latin America's most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Peru; and the story of his organisation of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990. He describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him into the political arena, and several incidents which gave rise to his fiction. As packed book weighs 1¼kgs (3lbs), slightly-higher-than-usual shipping costs apply (email us your location, we'll quote first). Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket.
Edité par Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1990
Vendeur : Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Original Wraps. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edtion. Uncorrected Proof Copy of the first American edition. Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. ***A very good copy in the original blue printed card covers. The covers are clean with just some light marks through handling, and a light crease to the top corner of the back cover. The spine is slightly faded. Contents are also very good with no inscriptions or annotations. No creases or tears. ***149 pages. 212mm x 138mm. ***'"In Praise of the Stepmother" is an erotic novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. Published in 1988, it is about a sexually open couple whose fantasies lead them to the edge of morality. The book is dedicated to Spanish film director Luis García Berlanga. The English translation published in 1990 was done by Helen Lane. This is a book of the erotic novel genre that reflects on the meaning of happiness, sexual morality, and the loss of innocence. It incorporates essays and poetry into the narrative. It also has vivid descriptions and analysis of famous art representing erotic scenes, in particular from the Peruvian painter Fernando de Szyszlo and the Flemish master Jacob Jordaens. ***An uncommon Uncorrected Proof Copy of this novel by the major Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa in nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Edité par London: Faber and Faber, 1983, 1983
Vendeur : Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
[Modern Literature] REVIEW COPY, FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 374; [2], blank. Orange boards quarter-bound with publisher's purple cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket designed by Russell Mills with printed price of £7.95 to front flap. Review copy slip loosely inserted. Toning to edges of textblock, light bumping to top of spine. Near fine. Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. This novel follows Marito - a young Peruvian - whose life is altered by the arrival of his recently divorced aunt and Pedro Camacho. The request for a review is on a slip of paper loosely inserted.
Edité par New York City, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986, 1986
ISBN 10 : 0374230773 ISBN 13 : 9780374230777
Vendeur : ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, Etats-Unis
Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 240 pages. Published in 1986. Book-length account on subject. 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 rare. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "La Orgia perpetua" in a felicitous English translation. The culmination of the author's lifelong obsession with Flaubert and his masterpiece. "Deals with the story the novel tells and the sources it uses, the way in which it transforms itself into time and language. Examines the 'added element' Flaubert joined to his perceptions of reality: His humanizing of objects, obsession with pairs, and manipulation of fictional time and narrative. Finally, focussing on such issues as the anti-hero and interior monologue, the author discusses the place of 'Madame Bovary' in the development of the modern novel" (Richard Kuczkowski). Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". He considers 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 has 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 transforms into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase). An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker 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 very 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: Copies available online have serious flaws yet are priced as though they had collectible value. 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 collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374230773. Signed by Author.
Edité par Farrar/Straus/Giroux, New York, 1982
Vendeur : Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, Etats-Unis
Edition originale Signé
Journal. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First US Edition; First Printing. A first printing of the first American edition in fine condition, housed in an equally fine dust-jacket. The book is signed by author Mario Vargas Llosa directly on the title page ; A comedic masterpiece from renowned Latin American author Mario Vargas Llosa. The plot centers around a tale of life and love in Lima in the middle of the twentieth century. The journey from young love to marriage and eventually to scandal between the two main characters weaves the tale ; 8vo; 374 pages; Signed by Author.