CAPTAIN PANTOJA AND THE SPECIAL SERVICE
by Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York:Harper & Row Publishers, (1978). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. New York:Harper & Row, Publishers. (1978). 1st edition, stated. 244pp. Translated from the Spanish by Greegory Kolovakos and Ronald Christ. Hardcover with dust jacket. Blue boards lightly soiled along back bottom edge, with dust soiling to top page edges. Internally, pages clean and bright. The dust jacket is slightly soiled with wear to edges and edge points (including small chips and tears). Overall, a very good, clean copy. *"Both a farce and a fable, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service marks a new direction in the literary development of Mario Vargas Llosa. Here, through a wonderfully comic montage of letters, military documents, radio broadcasts, dream sequences and dialogue, the author combines political satire with psychology, social criticism with humor, morality with unroarious sexuality."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23875
- Title
- CAPTAIN PANTOJA AND THE SPECIAL SERVICE
- Author
- Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York:Harper & Row Publishers
- Date Published
- (1978)
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; PERUVIAN; MARIO VARGAS LLOSA;
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Soiled
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