The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1986
- Used

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
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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.
Seller Inventory # 29878
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
- Author
- LLOSA, Mario Vargas (novel); MAC ADAM, Alfred (translation)
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
- Publication year
- 1986
- Dust jacket
- dj
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Latin America, Radical & Proletarian Literature, Trotskyism
Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
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