Obras Novelas Y Otros Escritos - Toma I and Toma II by Valdes, Armando Palacio - 1959

Madrid, Spain: Aguilar, S. A. De Ediciones, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. Spanish Language two volume set of the Works, Novels, and other Writings of Armando Palacio Valdes. Printed in Spain and copyright 1959. Brown flexible leather covers in very good condition. Size of each volume is approximately 7"" x 5 1/2"". Vol I is 1 1/2"" thick while Vol II is 1 1/8"" thick. Authors facsimile signature in gold lettering on center of front cover. Spine contains gold colored lettering with author's name and ""Obras Novelas Y Otros Escritos I"" and same for II. Under the title is blind stamped a head portrait. Both front and rear endpapers of both volumes have a brown & white drawing of a man and a woman on paper of a heavier stock than pages inside. Frontispieces in both volumes feature author; Vol I Portrait style; Vol II author sitting in a chair. Text block is clean & tight with no writings or other markings noted. Papers are very thin, like onion skin, thus the large number of pages (noted below) for the thickness of the volumes. The first few pages in front & back, due to the thinness of onion skin-like paper, have ""wrinkles"" where bound next to the heavier weight of the illustrated end papers. All text edges are ""marbled"" with black and white design. Top and side edges show some age toning compared to bottom block. Brown satin ribbon marker bound-in in both volumes. Volume I Title Page: Obras Tomo I. Copyright page: Septima Edicion (Seventh Edition) 1,884 numbered pages. Volume II Title Page: Obras Tomo II. Copyright page: Cuarta Edicion (Fourth Edition) 1,498 numbered pages. Indice de los titulos que comprende cada volumen Tomo I: Marta Y Maria. Jose. Riverita. Maximina. El Cuarto Poder. La Hermana San Sulpicio. La Aldea Perdida. Los Majos De Cadiz. La Allegria Del Capitan Ribot. Tristan O El Pesimismo. Papeles Del Doctor Angelico. Anos De Juventud Del Doctor Angelico. La Hija de Natalia. Santa Rogelia. Sinfonia Pastoral. Tomo II: El Senorito Octavio. El Idilio de un Enfermo. La Espuma. El Maestrante. El Origen del Pensamiento. Los Carmenes de Granada. La Novela de un Novelista. Album de un Viejo. A Cara o Cruz. Cuentos - Escritos varios: Semblanzas Literarias. Testamento Literario. El Gobierno de las Mujeres. La Literatura en 1881. La Catedral y la Fabrica. Discurso ante la Real. Academia Espanola.