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THE ITCHING PARROT EL PERIQUILLO SARNIENTO. By José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi

by Porter, Katherine Anne [trans]:

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Book Description

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1942.. Large octavo. Decorated cloth. Slight darkening along joints, else fine in very good, bright dust jacket with two tiny chips at tips and a short, closed edge tear. First edition of this extensive reworking by Porter of Eugene Pressly's translation, with an Introduction. Monroe Wheeler's copy, with his small bookplate on the half-title, and Porter's presentation inscription on the free endsheet: "To my dear Monroe This little monument to a conversation in the Murray Hill Bar, not so very long ago - with my same old love Katherine Anne March 27 1943 New York." An excellent association copy, Porter's and Wheeler's friendship having extended back over a decade to their meeting in Paris and the appearance of HACIENDA and FRENCH SONG-BOOK under the Harrison of Paris imprint.

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