Pedro Paramo

by Rulfo, Juan; Lysander Kemp [Translator]

$1,600 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · In dust jacket

New York: Grove Press Inc, 1959. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. 123 pp. Bound in publisher's grey boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with trivial rubbing to spine ends and corners, and foxing to endsheets. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine, light edge wear, foxing to flaps and blindside. The Mexican author's second book and first novel, which would later "unblock" Gabriel Garcia Marquez and allow him to write his classic novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. A masterpiece of Spanish-language literature hailed by Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie and Carlos Fuentes.

• Publisher: Grove Press Inc
• Year: 1959
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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