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EL CAPITAN VENENO: Captain Venom / Poison.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Translation Publishing Company, (1914). Hardcover first edition - A romantic adventure story set in 1848 by this Spanish novelist, war correspondent and member of Parliament, among other things. This is considered one of de Alarcon's best works. Includes both a translator's and an author's foreword. 103 pp.
Condition: Very good in black boards with gilt lettering and bands on the front cover.
Book ID: 82112More details Price: $18.50 -
NO MOURNING FOR THE MATADOR.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ives Washburn, (1953) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh Jane and Dagobert Brown mystery - they lightheartedly head off to Spain for some much needed rest - only to discover themselves once again embroiled in murder when they attend a bullfight in Barcelona and the matador is killed. 191 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in tan cloth in a very good dust jacket (some light toning to the pages, small chip to bottom edge of front cover of dust jacket, original price of $2.50 still present) .
Book ID: 78283More details Price: $45.00 -
1492: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUAN CABEZON OF CASTILE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Summit Books, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the Spanish by Betty Ferber. A novel of late15th century Spain - a time of discovery and exploration, of the Inquisition and war - by one of Mexico's most acclaimed writers. ISBN: 0-671-644998.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22868More details Price: $25.00 -
FOR A SACK OF BONES.
Edition: First American edition
Orlando, FL Harcourt (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - "After eight years in exile, Sergeant Genis Aleu returns to the city of Barcelona, Spain bearing the mark of a man who has seen many battles and has one last mission ahead of him. A soldier in the the ill-famed foreign legion, Aleu cuts a intimidating figure as he negotiates around the paranoid and suspicious citizens of Franco's Spain, while trying to fulfill his father’s dying wish." Translated from the Catalan by Cheryl Leah Morgan. Winner of the Ramon Llull prize. 359 pp. ISBN: 978-0-15-1012558.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60712More details Price: $18.50 -
FIESTAS.
Edition: Second edition, a trade paperback.
Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, (2006). A collection of eleven short stories about modern Spain, beginning with a story set in the years just before the Spanish Civil War of 1936, and continuing through the twentieth century. Winner of the George Garrett Prize. 166 pp. ISBN: 1-881515958.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71801More details Price: $12.50 -
GUERNICA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bloomsbury, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the Basque town of Guernica before, during and after the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. SIGNED on the title page. Map, pronunciation guide. 367 pp. ISBN: 978-1596915633.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 64480More details Price: $25.00 -
THE THREE KINGS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. dj. Hardcover first edition - A charming story in an appealing small volume, illustrated in both color and black & white by Janice Holland. Set in a small village in Spain, where for 5 years, the Kings had not come on January 6th, bearing gifts for the boys and girls - now that the war is over, the kings should come again - but who can afford the horses for them to ride?
Condition: Very good (some staining to edges of boards) in a sunned and somewhat worn dj.
Book ID: 11865More details Price: $28.00 -
SHARPE'S TRALFAGAR: Richard Sharpe & the Battle of Trafagar, October 21, 1805.
Edition: 4th printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2001.) dj. Hardcover - In chronological order, this is the fourth book in the Sharpe series, set in 1805 as Sharpe is returning to England on the Calliope, which is captured by a French warship the Revenant. Battle plan. Historical note. Illustrated endpapers. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0194251.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82215More details Price: $16.50 -
THREE HUSBANDS HOAXED.
Edition: First printing.
London & Emmaus, PennsylvaniaL The Rodale Press, (1955). Hardcover first edition - A story taken from a book originally published in Madrid in 1621 by this dramatist, poet and Catholic monk, and here "freely translated from the Spanish" by Ilsa Barea and illustrated by Arthur Wragg. Includes an introduction by Arturo Barea. xii, 72 pp.
Condition: Fine in brown cloth with black and gilt panel and title on the spine, decoration on front cover, in a cream wraparound band in a very good black slipcase (some rubbing to the corners of the slipcase.)
Book ID: 85412More details Price: $28.50 -
BULLS, BULLFIGHTING, AND SPANISH IDENTITIES.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1999). A study of symbolism around bulls and bullfighting which is used to examine the broader anthropological issues of identity and nationhood. Discusses in some detail three regional feistas focused on the bull in different areas of the country - Bilbao, Sevilla and Pamplona. Illustrated. Notes, literature cited, index. xii 245 pp. ISBN: 0-816516529.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (faint remainder line)
Book ID: 75430More details Price: $17.50 -
GLORIANA'S TORCH.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book in the highly acclaimed trilogy set during the time of Elizabeth I and featurning David Becket and Simon Ames: "1587 and the Spanish are preparing to launch the Armada, their Holy Enterprise of England, to rescue the English from heresy and Elizabeth, their Witch-Queen." Includes a foreword, Dramatis Personae, and historical note. 452 pp. ISBN: 0-312312857.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37118More details Price: $18.00 -
THE COLDEST WINTER: A Stringer in Liberated Europe.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second memoir by this award-winning author, focused on the very beginning of her career - "In 1946, Paula Fox walked up the gangplank of a partly reconverted Liberty with the classic American hope of finding experience in Europe. She was twenty-two years old, and would spend the next year moving among the ruins of London, Warsaw, Paris, Prague, Madrid, and other cities as a stringer for a small British news service - including a stint in bombed-out Warsaw in the midst of the Communist election takeovers, and nights spent in apartments here and there with distant relatives, friends of friends, and in shabby pensions with little heat." Illustrated with photographs. 133 pp. ISBN: 0-805078061.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85741More details Price: $18.50 -
THE SLEEPING WORLD.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, (2019). First edition - The author's first novel, set in Spain in 1977, as military rule ends. Cristina Garcia called this A searing, beautifully written novel that captures the exhilaration and dangers of 1970s post-Franco Spain. Mosca, a bitterly jaded young woman, goes on a harrowing search for her missing brother - and the history that destroyed their lives. Violent, heartbreaking, unforgettable. . a stunning debut. 287 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84856More details Price: $18.50 -
THE LOST ADVENTURER.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a romantic, a loner dedicated to lost causes who leaves his small town in Pennslyvania to become involved in a political uprising in Valencia, Spain, in 1869. In addition to being a writer and novelist, Gilkyson was a lawyer and served as the American secretary at the Nuremberg Military Tribunals after World War II. Striking art deco cover art by Juan Oliver. 297 pp.
Condition: Near fine in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 64563More details Price: $65.00 -
THE CYPRESSES BELIEVE IN GOD.
Edition: 3rd printing of the one volume edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. dj. Hardcover - The first book in his massive trilogy on the Spanish Civil War, the book upon which Gironella's reputation rests. Deeply Catholic and conservative, Gironella nevertheless attempted to write an even-handed account of that war, and its effect on the Basque Alvear family and on the ordinary people of Catalonia. This novel covers the years leading up to the outbreak of that war. Winner of the National Prize for Literature. Translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onis. Glossary of persons appearing in the novel. 1010 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket. An attractive copy.
Book ID: 57574More details Price: $30.00 -
HOPE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Duckworth & Co., 1910. dj. Hardcover first edition - A volume of sketches, some very brief, many based on events and episodes in his travels in Europe and Latin America. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 238 pages, plus 6 pages of advertisements.
Condition: Very good overall in a fair only example of the very scarce dustjacket (dj is split along the side of the spine and missing approximately a 2 inch piece from the middle of the dj spine - plus some loss at both ends of the spine. )
Book ID: 16910More details Price: $85.00 -
I'M SPEAKING: Selected Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of poems which bring to life the author's native Andalusia and describe coming of age during the Spanish Civil War. A bilingual edition with the original Spanish on the left and the English translation by Sandy McKinney with the author on the right. 103 pp. ISBN: 0-8101-18513.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46314More details Price: $16.00 -
THE ROAD TO SANTIAGO.
Edition: First printing.
Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novelist's engrossing account of making the 200-mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, in the heat of summer, and with her 12 year old daughter. A book both realistic in recognizing the frailities and failures of us all, and inspiring. A title in the Literary Travel Series. 150 pp. ISBN: 0-7922-37455.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43634More details Price: $18.00 -
TRES POEMAS INEDITOS DE JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ EN RECUERDO Y HOMENAJE A ZENOBIA CAMPRUBI AYMAR.
Edition: First thus.
1956-1966. An ephemeral but attractive production of these poems by the Spanish nobel laureate in honor of his wife, who died in 1956. Consists of a single sheet folded, laid-in to a tan cardstock folder with the title on the front cover, dates on the bottom of the front and a small drawing on the back cover. No place of publication, but possibly Puerto Rico, where Jimenez and Zenobia settled after 1948. Text is in Spanish (en espagnol)
Condition: Very good (light creasing to the cover)
Book ID: 62256More details Price: $16.50 -
SNOWBALL ORANGES: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle.
Edition: First US printing.
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - "It's the stuff of dreams: a Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean island of Majorca. But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and "experiences," and it isn't long before they realize that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners." Illustrated with drawings at the beginning of each chapter. 226 pp. ISBN: 1-585745480.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76589More details Price: $18.50 -
MANANA, MANANA: One Mallorcan Summer.
Edition: First US printing.
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second memoir, a sequel to Snowball Oranges. "Spring is approaching; the neighboring rooster, General Franco, is crowing earlier and louder; and the author, a Scottish farmer who, with his family, has left his homeland to grow fruit in Mallorca, is up to greet the gorgeous island dawn. . . As Kerr and his family try to adjust their Scottish farming experience to the Mallorcan climate, they are on a steep learning curve, both cultural and agricultural. " Illustrated with drawings at the beginning of each chapter. 231 pp. ISBN: 1-585746371.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76590More details Price: $18.50 -
SQUASH IT! A True and Ridiculous Tale.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holiday House, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An adaptation of a folktale from Ruth Sawyer's Picture Tales from Spain (1936) which features a king who picks a louse from his head and turns it into a pampered pet because "it has royal blood in its veins" or, as Kimmel puts it, he took an already ridiculous tale and stretched it a bit further. SIGNED on the title page by Kimmel. Illustrated in full color by Robert Rayevsky. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-8234-12997.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 55585More details Price: $30.00 -
A YEAR IN THE WORLD: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Broadway Books, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "With her beloved Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal, France, The British Isles, elsewhere in Italy, and to the Mediterranean world of Turkey, Greece, and North Africa, Fez" Map endpapers. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-767910052.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41770More details Price: $15.00 -
ARCHITECTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD: Its History and Social Meaning.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A panoramic survey of the entire field of Islamic architecture, from mosques to markets, from citadels to cemeteries, with the emphasis upon function and meaning rather than upon chronology and style. . . The book concludes with a comprehensive inventory of the key buildings of the Islamic world - 250 examples divided geographically." Texts by Ernst J Grube, James Dickie, Oleg Grabar, Eleanor Sims, Ronald Lewcock, Dalu Jones, Guy T Peterbridge. 758 illustrations, 112 in full color. Double-page map of the Islamic heartlands showing the main trade and hajj routes, glossary, bibliography, index, illustrated end-papers. Large format. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-688-033245.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Errata slip laid in.
Book ID: 50532More details Price: $60.00 -
TORN LACE and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
New York: Modern Language Association of New York, 1996. First edition - Although written 100 and more years ago, this is the first English language translation of most of these stories. Still relevant to modern concerns, they range from outspoken to witty, humorous to sad, with many of them exploring aspects of the relationship between women and men. Translated by Maria Cristina Urruela; Introduction by Joyce Tolliver Bibliography, note on editions, xxxiv, 141 pp. ISBN: 0-873527844.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (sunning to spine).
Book ID: 61555More details Price: $18.50 -
SUMMER SNOW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon investigation, set in Spain in 1945 (the first book in this series won the Edgar award). ISBN: 1-569474087.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (2 short tears to dj at fold of flap, and near spine)
Book ID: 66900More details Price: $15.00 -
THE ART OF FLAMENCO.
Edition: Fourth edition.
Shaftesbury, Dorset. UK: Musical New Services Ltd. (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A revised and updated edition of this comprehensive and award-winning book on Flamenco, the author's first book originally published in 1962. Includes a look at the history of the dance, a section on flamenco guitar makers, appendices on the juerga, flamenco festivals, resources for learning flamenco and more. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper and dated in 1985. At the time of publication, the author was the only non-Spaniard to be elected to the Catedra de Flamencologia of Jerez de la Frontera. Illustrated with many black and white photographs. Glossary. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-946570027.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners bumped).
Book ID: 72573More details Price: $60.00 -
!CARNIVALE!
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set on the border of Spain and Portugal, against the backdrop of a fiesta. Bullfighting glossary. 221 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket/
Book ID: 66546More details Price: $16.50 -
THE ALTOGETHER UNEXPECTED DISAPPEARANCE OF ATTICUS CRAFTSMAN,
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), 2016. First edition - The author's fifth novel, but the first to appear in English - the story of an uptight Englishman who is sent to Madrid by his father to close a failing literary magazine and the five fiery, close-knit Spanish women who must devise a plan in order to keep the jobs they love. A combination of farce, mystery, literature and love. Translated from the Spanish by Lucy Greaves. 324 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (light spots to the margins of a few pages)
Book ID: 84521More details Price: $16.50 -
WINTER IN MADRID.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Viking, (2008). First edition - Suspense novel set in September 1940 - the Spanish Civil War is over and Madrid lies in ruins while the Germans continue their march through Europe.. . Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett, a privileged young man who was recently traumatized by his experience in Dunkirk and is now a reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. . . a vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain, Winter in Madrid is an intimate and riveting tale that offers a remarkable sense of history unfolding and the profound impact of impossible choices." Historical note. Select bibliography. 537 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A very uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 58221More details Price: $45.00