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  • Thornton, Lawrence.
    TALES FROM THE BLUE ARCHIVES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third of his books about modern Argentina. This focuses on Delores Masson who for years joined the marches each Thursday in Bueno Aires to protest the loss of the disappeared, and what happens when her twin grandsons, lost as infants and now teenagers with no knowledge of their real parents, are finally discovered . 272 pp. ISBN: 0-385480105.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 36604
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  • TALES FROM THE BLUE ARCHIVES. by Thornton, Lawrence.
    Thornton, Lawrence.
    TALES FROM THE BLUE ARCHIVES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third of his books about modern Argentina. This focuses on Delores Masson who for years joined the marches each Thursday in Bueno Aires to protest the loss of the disappeared, and what happens when her twin grandsons, lost as infants and now teenagers with no knowledge of their real parents, are finally discovered . SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-385480105.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 61436
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  • NAMING THE SPIRITS. by Thornton, Lawrence.
    Thornton, Lawrence.
    NAMING THE SPIRITS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's fourth novel: Set in Argentina as the Dirty War is coming to the end, this is the story of a teenage girl who miraculously survives a night in a killing field, INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-385-475527.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 61437
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  • Timerman, Jacobo.
    PRISONER WITHOUT A NAME, CELL WITHOUT A NUMBER.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover - An account of his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Argentinian goverment as a dissenter and as a Jew. Translated from the Spanish by Toby Talbot. 164 pages. ISBN: 0-394-514483.

    Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (some edgewear to dj.)

    Book ID: 29369
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  • Timerman, Jacobo.
    PRISONER WITHOUT A NAME, CELL WITHOUT A NUMBER.

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover - An account of his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Argentinian goverment as a dissenter and as a Jew. Translated from the Spanish by Toby Talbot. 164 pages. ISBN: 0-394-514483.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (remainder mark, closed tear to dj.)

    Book ID: 23673
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  • Unger, Douglas.
    VOICES FROM THE SILENCE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel about one of the Los Desaparecidos of Argentina and the affect it had on the family of the 'disappeared one' as seen by an American journalist, who had become a close friend of the family's son as an exchange student 10 years earlier. Makes the terror and oppression of the military regime real and heart-wrenching. Dust jacket praise from Hayden Carruth, Ana Castillo and others. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-312-132042.

    Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 32959
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  • Unger, Douglas.
    EL YANQUI.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harper & Row, (1986.). SIGNED first edition - Author's second novel, a coming of age story of a young American who wins a competition to study abroad for a year (mostly by staying nice and stoned.) In Argentina, he is first welcomed into a life of privilege, but when he finds himself detained in a soccer stadium along with thousands of others, he begins to understand the true meaning of a police state. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

    Condition: Near fine - black line at bottom of textblock.

    Book ID: 31122
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  • Unger, Douglas.
    EL YANQUI.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Harper & Row, (1986.). SIGNED first edition - Author's second novel, a coming of age story of a young American who wins a competition to study abroad for a year (mostly by staying nice and stoned.) In Argentina, he is first welcomed into a life of privilege, but when he finds himself detained in a soccer stadium along with thousands of others, he begins to understand the true meaning of a police state. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

    Condition: Very good only - some crinkling from dampness to several pages at rear of book, 2 black lines at bottom of textblock. Still, signed copies of this advance issue are quite uncommon.

    Book ID: 30653
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  • Unger, Douglas.
    EL YANQUI.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1986.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, a coming of age story of a young American who wins a competition to study abroad for a year (mostly by staying nice and stoned.) In Argentina, he is first welcomed into a life of privilege, but when he finds himself detained in a soccer stadium along with thousands of others, he begins to understand the true meaning of a police state. SIGNED by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0-06-0156457.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 30472
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  • Valenzuela, Luisa.
    THE LIZARD'S TAIL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Argentinian born author's first novel (3rd book) to appear in the US. An imaginary biography of a real figure - Peron's Minister of Social Well-Being - who is called the Sorcerer. SIGNED on the title page by the translartor, Gregory Rabassa, and uncommon thus. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-374-18994-3.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 16240
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