Son of Man

Roa Bastos, Augusto | translated by Rachel Caffyn

Published by Victor Gollancz, London, 1965

About this Item

Octavo. 256 pp. First English edition. As issued, in publisher's boards with dust jacket. Slight toning to the binding; contents have very faint and even toning throughout; previous owner bookplate of David Szwyczyk, bookseller and Latin American scholar, on the front pastedown; dust jacket is rubbed at the edges, particularly the back panel where this is a long closed tear; sticker of the America distributor, Lawrence Verry of Mystic, CT, on the spine; dust jacket is price clipped. Roa Bastos is an internationally acclaimed Paraguayan fiction writer, and this, his first novel, originally published as Hijo de Hombre (1960), was award-winning both the novel and the screenplay adaptation by him. The first English translation is remarkably uncommon in commerce.

Seller Inventory # 9732

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Son of Man
• Publisher: Victor Gollancz, London
• Publication Date: 1965
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good binding
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket
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  • Literature and Fiction