Love and the Spanish by Epton, Nina - 1961

London, England: Cassell, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. Verso of title page states "Second Edition" but it may in fact be a second impression; text block is solid and clean with light foxing on top edge; dust jacket is intact but has large chip out of top of spine and small chips at corners; age toning to spine; dj is now protected by a mylar cover; gift inscription on front end paper; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; a good reading copy..

Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1961. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [viii], 216 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear, including a tiny bump to the bottom edge; in almost new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear and minimal browning; protected in archival mylar. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

World, 1961. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Edge wear top jacket. .

Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1964. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. clean copy, no damage to describe, no annotations. Illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white reproductions of artwork, indexed. this is the first softcover edition. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 256 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Sociology & Culture; Spain; Inventory No: 0276495. .

Penguin, 1964. Soft cover. Fair. Spine leans and has some creases; pages tanning but clean. A good reading copy with no inscriptions.

Cleveland: World, 1961. First. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(-). Illustrated. 216pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper chipped. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, (1981). First edition. A very good (+) copy in a very good (-) dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Co., 1961. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Co., 1961. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated First Edition in clean original dust jacket. Very clean red cloth boards with black illustrations on cover and spine. Gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. No bumping or edgewear. Pages, edges and endpapers are clean and bright with no writing or marks. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has very tiny chip at top spine corner, 3/4" closed tear to bottom left corner of spine fold. Many black and white full page illustrations. 216 pgs. with index. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. The Spanish attitude toward love, past and present..

World 1961 1st CONDITION: vg NOTE: tight.

London: Cassell, 1961. 216 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w illustrations. "Spain is a country of Magdalenes and repentant Don Juans as well as of gay sinners. This sums up concisely and colourfully - as far as love can ever be summed up - what must be considered as the Spanish attitude to love both in the past and indeed at the present time, for it has changed remarkably little over the centuries, and only now has enlightened thought to some extent begun to free love from strangling conventions and taboos. This country has produced Don Juan the greatest lover of all time, one of the most passionate and violent of all love stories in 'Carmen', the Inquisition with its scenes of extreme punishment and tortured flesh, the charming court-ship rites like the Fiesta de San Antonio, and the tragic genius of Lorca, preoccupied with beauty and death. How is it possible to reconcile the passionate guitar-playing majo with the cold, unyielding figure of the Inquisitor? Miss Epton gives us the answer -… Read More

London : Cassell , 1961 . First Edition . NF/NF . 8VO . A very nice copy in lightly worn priceclipped jacket. Black and white illustrations.