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Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, NY, 1986
ISBN 10: 0374247765ISBN 13: 9780374247768
Seller: West With The Night, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Book 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: 0020225709ISBN 13: 9780020225706
Seller: Lorrin Wong, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book
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: 0374525560ISBN 13: 9780374525569
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Trade Paperback. Condition: Brand New. Joanne Dugan (Cover Photo); Skouras Design (Cover Design); Roxana Loughlin (Design) (illustrator). Copyright © 1988. 151 pp. Book in pristine state.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 1986
ISBN 10: 0374247765ISBN 13: 9780374247768
Seller: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Book
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 And Giroux, 1986
ISBN 10: 0571145795ISBN 13: 9780571145799
Seller: The Oregon Room - Well described books!, Phoenix, OR, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: 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.
Published by New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990, 1990
ISBN 10: 0374175837ISBN 13: 9780374175832
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: 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.