real life alejandro mayta de llosa mario vargas adam alfred (10 résultats)

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

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good, Not Price Clipped. American First. First Edition stated on verso of title page; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

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.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Fine. 1st Edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1986. "Second Printing, 1986" (stated) of the First American Edition. Translated from the Spanish La Historia de Mayta, 1984, Spain, by Alfred Mac Adam. Very Fine in a Very Fine Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, bright white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is light gray cloth to boards of a lighter gray, colors uniform except at top and bottom 1/32", bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is bright, colors uniform throughout, intact with the original price ($16.95) intact on the front flap, and would be flawless but for one tiny tear at the bottom of the rear fold that has been discreetly closed from behind with archival materials. See the photos. 308 pages. 6 3/8" x 9 1/4". This historical novel tells the story of Alejandro Mayta Avendaño, a Trotskyist and member of the Revolutionary Workers Party, who organized a failed uprising in 1958 in the Andean town of Juaja, Peru. By the use of various interested narrators and a fictional first person account by Mayta, the reader is confronted with conflicting views of the person and events. ISBN 10: 0374247765 / ISBN 13: 9780374247768.

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.

FIRST EDITION. Super 8vo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

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.

hardcover. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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

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.