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Book Condition: Used Fine
Jacket condition: Fine Dust Jacket.
ISBN: 0679424040 / 9780679424048
Seller: Modern Rare

United States
About Item: New York City, NY: Pantheon Books, 1992. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Pantheon Books, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 326 pages. The author's first novel to be translated into English. One of the most important novels of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Bernardo Atxaga's "Obabakoak" in a felicitous English translation. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, the finest translator of Spanish and Portuguese literature of our time, from the Spanish Language Version that the author himself wrote after his novel's Basque original. He has gratefully embraced the English translation as definitive. Subsequent editions have since been helpfully re-titled as… Read More
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