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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated by Edith Grossman. Illustrations by the author. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L61

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1996. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page.Translated by Laura Dail. Author of NO HAPPY ENDING and FOUR HANDS. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M9

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 64mo - up to 3" tall. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Fine,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L60

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1987. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author in black fountain ink on title page.Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. In her second novel, OF LOVE AND SHADOWS, Isabel Allende again transports us to a world of large… Read more

New York, NY, U.S.A: Bantam Books, 1993. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. By the author of GABRIELA, CLOVE AND CINNAMON; DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS; TEREZA BATISTA, and SHOWDOWN, among many others. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L29

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1996. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. V

New York, NY, U.S.A: HarperCollins Publishers , Inc., 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine,F first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} MLBS1

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers , Inc., 2001. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author in black fountain ink on title page. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Isabel Allende is the author of THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, EVA LUNA, OF LOVE AND SHADOWS, THE… Read more

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vargas Llosa's many fine books also include THE GREEN HOUSE, CONVERSATIONS IN THE CATHEDRAL, AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER, and DEATH IN THE ANDES. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L40

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989. First English-Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L40/ L3

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1988. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A workaholic, second-generation Chicano graduated from Harvard Law School, David Loya is now a rising star at a major corporate law firm in NYC. Ordered by his employers to take a holiday, Loya returns… Read more

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. From the Nobel Prize-winning author of ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE and LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, the story of a doomed love affair between an unruly… Read more

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Beacon Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A family memoir told in the voices of ancestors, HOUSE OF HOUSES is about oppresssion and survival and sometimes triumph, as "any book about a Mexican American family must be." Mora's house of houses is large,… Read more

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1994. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Fine. 64mo - up to 3" tall. Twice married--once divorced and once widowed--Soveida Dosamantes is a survivor. She is currently writing a handbook for waitresses called 'The Book of Service,' a compendium of lessons she has learned working for thirty years… Read more

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, Publishers, 1993. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author in black fountain ink on title page. Gregory Reeves is the son of an artist and self-styled preacher who wanders through the American West with his family in a caravan during the 1940s, preaching… Read more

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In this spellbinding debut novel, filled with both intense eroticism and delicate tenderness, Jose Raul Bernardo brings vividly to life the exotic and fascinating world of Cuba during the earlier part of this century.… Read more

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1995. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed 'To Elaine, Best Wishes', signed by author, and dated Sept. 16, 1995 on title page. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. G

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 1997. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. By the author of THE LONG NIGHT OF WHITE CHICKENSS. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L36

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1993. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A raucous and heartfelt epic that brings to life the Montez O'Brien family, spanning both the continent and the century, celebrating the moments of earthly happiness that give us meaning, and the constantly surprising, regenerating… Read more

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove Press, 1992. First English-Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L40