The Burning Plain and Other Stories
by Juan Rulfo; George D. Schade [trans.]; Kermit Oliver [illus.]
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970. Near Fine/Near Fine. Austin: University of Texas Press, [1970]. Second Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in orange pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.00); xv,[1],175pp.; frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Jacket spine just a shade sunned, very light soil to textblock edges, else a Near Fine copy.
Splendid copy of the Mexican author's best-known collection of short stories, first published in 1953 in the original Spanish as "El Llano en llamas.
Splendid copy of the Mexican author's best-known collection of short stories, first published in 1953 in the original Spanish as "El Llano en llamas.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27582
- Title
- The Burning Plain and Other Stories
- Author
- Juan Rulfo; George D. Schade [trans.]; Kermit Oliver [illus.]
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Place of Publication
- Austin
- Date Published
- 1970
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Publisher's cloth
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- Jacket
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- Sunned
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- Fine
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....