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MY HOUSE IS ON FIRE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories, many about the brutality of life in a country torn apart by political violence and torture, by this exiled Chilean writer. Translated from the Spanish by George Shivers with the author. ISBN: 0-670-820210.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (an unread copy, remainder line bottom edge.)
Book ID: 11268More details Price: $15.00 -
THE LAST SONG OF MANUEL SENDERO.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A stunning achievement by this Chilean author, a novel steeped in imagery both mythic and surreal, driven by extraordinary passion and faith. Translated by George R. Shivers with the author. Review copy with publisher's material laid in.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (small abraded spot from erasure on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 14315More details Price: $35.00 -
MASCARA
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this exiled Chilean writer - and the first which he wrote in English. Called a 'haunting, surreal, brilliantly conceived thriller about deception and betrayal.' Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. ISBN: 0-670-823147.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 21222More details Price: $30.00 -
MASCARA
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this exiled Argentinian writer - and the first which he wrote in English. ISBN: 0-670-823147.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 21223More details Price: $18.00 -
AL FILO DE UN CANSANCIO APATRIDA / ON THE EDGE OF A COUNTRYLESS WEARINESS: Poemas / Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: ism press, (1986.). First edition - A collection of 14 poems by this Chilean writers, of different generations, but both living in the United States and in exile from Chile. Bilingual edition, with the text in Spanish & English, on facing pages (en espanol). One of 2000 copies. 56 pp. Cover drawing by Rafael Edwards. ISBN: 0-910383-243.
Condition: Fine in stiff orange illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 32762More details Price: $16.00 -
THE GOLD RUSH DIARY OF RAMON GIL NAVARRO.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (corners slightly bumped).
Book ID: 38014More details Price: $45.00 -
EXTRAVAGARIA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first complete English language translation of this work originally published in 1958, a collection of lyric poems written by Neruda after he had returned to Chile and settled at Isla Negra. A bilingual edition, with the original Spanish on the verso and the English translation by Alastair Reid on the recto. Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Includes translator's note. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-374-15126-1.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (sunning to the orange letters in Neruda on the dj spine, but otherwise like new.)
Book ID: 54880More details Price: $50.00 -
THE CAPTAIN'S VERSES / LOS VERSOS DEL CAPITAN:The Love Poems .
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: New Directions, (2004). A bilingual edition of these poems by the Chilean Nobel Laureate, originally written in 1953 while he was in exile on the isle of Capri, translated by Donald D. Walsh, with his 1972 introduction. NDP991. 151 pp. ISBN: 0-811215806.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86652More details Price: $16.50 -
BURNING BRIDGES.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Ontario: Cormorant Books, 1987. First edition - A collection of poems by this Chilean author, who divides his time between Toronto and Santiago, which "explore both new literary forms and a variety of subjects, including the psychology of exile" and life in his adopted country of Canada. Translated by Christina Shantz. Winner of the first prize in the Spanish writing competition of the University of Alberta. 71 pp. ISBN: 0-92095328X.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67571More details Price: $16.50 -
CRIME AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: Issues in Criminology. #7, Spring - Summer, 1977.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: Crime and Social Justice, 1977. First edition - Includes an announcement that the Berkeley School of Criminology - which was the impetus behind this journal and the only progressive program of study of criminlogy in the US - had been abolished. This issue contains articles on Class consciousness and crime in Chile by James Petras; on prison psychiatrists and drugs by Richard Speigelman, on the FBI and more. Photographs, ads, large format (8.5 by 11.5 inches), 74 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (address label,).
Book ID: 57892More details Price: $25.00 -
POLLY iN SOUTH AMERICA: The Polly Brewster Series #7.
Edition: First or early edition.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1924). Hardcover - An interesting series written for older girls, featuring Polly Brewster, who grew up on a ranch in Colorado, and her friend Eleanor Maynard, but who are now far removed from their roots. Only includes 6 previous titles on title page. While this is almost a travelogue, with a minimal plot, and the comments on what they find is often prejudiced, this book does includes a look at the effects of earthquakes and tsumanis, and an interesting glimpse of nitrate mining in the Bolivian coastal region of Antofagasta. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three inserted plates by H.S. Barbour. 280 pp.
Condition: Very good overall in blue cloth with yellow and dark blue lettering (slight spine slant, minor wear) , no dj.
Book ID: 74779More details Price: $13.50 -
SANTIAGO POEMS.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, (1975). First edition - Eleven poems written in Santiago de Chile from shortly after the 11 September 1973 military coup to 28 July 1974 to call attention to the situation in Chile "during the repression administered by the United States and Brazil and carried out by Chileans whom greed or fear made brutal.". 31 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some rubbing to the covers).
Book ID: 85540More details Price: $15.00 -
THE NAME OF A BULLFIGHTER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A novel of international intrigue" involving lost Nazi treasure, by this Chilean writer who was exiled for his political activities, and living in Germany at the time this was written. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Ruta. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-151001936.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (spine slant.)
Book ID: 40700More details Price: $12.50 -
CAMINANTE: A NARROW ROAD INTO THE FAR SOUTH: 131 Octaves.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (remainder line.)
Book ID: 36494More details Price: $20.00 -
FROM WEST TO EAST: Five Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very good+ in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, sunning to spine of dj, light edgewear.)
Book ID: 27235More details Price: $75.00 -
CHILE: DEATH IN THE SOUTH.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Vintage Books, 1988. A very personal description of the oppression that has grown in Chile durng the 14 years of Pinochet's dictatorship. Translated from the Spanish by Rober t Cox. 134 pages. ISBN: 0-679-72012x.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 17731More details Price: $10.00 -
DEEP DOWN DARK: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A detailed and in-depth account of the 69 day ordeal of these 33 miners by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 978-0374280604.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70044More details Price: $35.00