Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986
ISBN 10: 0374247765 ISBN 13: 9780374247768
Seller: Orphans Treasure Box, Champaign, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. Ships quickly. Stated: First Edition, 1986. DJ is different than shown: White with gray print, and bird in sunlight. Pages unmarked. Pages are white and have mild wear only. Edges of DJ and cover boards are faded/yellowed. DJ fluttered but no chips or tears. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, NY, 1986
ISBN 10: 0374247765 ISBN 13: 9780374247768
Seller: West With The Night, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard cover. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Text in English, Spanish. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. Audience: General/trade.
Published by NY: MacMillan/Collier Books, 1988
ISBN 10: 0020225709 ISBN 13: 9780020225706
Seller: Lorrin Wong, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. 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).
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 0374525560 ISBN 13: 9780374525569
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: NEW. Joanne Dugan (Cover Photo); Skouras Design (Cover Design); Roxana Loughlin (Design) (illustrator). Copyright © 1988. 151 pp. Book in pristine state.
Published by Aventura / Vintage Books, 1986
ISBN 10: 0394747763 ISBN 13: 9780394747767
Paperback. Condition: USED_GOOD.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986
ISBN 10: 0374247765 ISBN 13: 9780374247768
Seller: A Good Read, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Several creased page corners. ; 10.50 X 8.60 X 2.50 inches; 320 pages.
Published by Colllier Books, 1988
ISBN 10: 0020225709 ISBN 13: 9780020225706
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: USED_GOOD. Good trade paperback.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 1986
ISBN 10: 0374247765 ISBN 13: 9780374247768
Seller: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986
ISBN 10: 0374247765 ISBN 13: 9780374247768
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First ed; First Printing. 6.08 X 1.14 X 9.36 inches; 320 pages.
Published by Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 1986
ISBN 10: 0571145795 ISBN 13: 9780571145799
Seller: The Oregon Room - Well described books!, Phoenix, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. 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.
Published by MacMillan, 1998
ISBN 10: 0374525560 ISBN 13: 9780374525569
Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: New. pp. 160 Reprint Edition.
Published by MacMillan, 1998
ISBN 10: 0374525560 ISBN 13: 9780374525569
Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom
Condition: NEW. Print on Demand pp. 160.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0374247765 ISBN 13: 9780374247768
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1986
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 310 pages. Dj worn. Text foxed. Ex library copy.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1986
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. 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.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986
ISBN 10: 0374247765 ISBN 13: 9780374247768
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: NEW. In shrink wrap! Looks like an interesting title!.
Published by New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990, 1990
ISBN 10: 0374175837 ISBN 13: 9780374175832
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: 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 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 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 does 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.