Search Results: war of time by carpentier alejo

Victor Gollancz Ltd , 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Translated from the Spanish by Frances Partridge. Publication of 191 pages. The dust jacket is a touch edge worn. The boards are in good condition. There is minor foxing on the top edge of the book. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. Tightly bound and protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 8x5x1.

Orion Publishing Group, Limited. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Orion Publishing Group, Limited. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Very Good+/Near Fine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.95), yellow topstain; [10],179pp. Cloth very lightly faded along margins, else a Near Fine copy overall. Collection of five novellas and short stories by the Cuban author and musicologist.

Gollancz, 1970. VERY good first issue hardcover in very good, unfaded, unclipped dustjacket from a remarkable collection of Gollancz fiction. Only blemish is a minor shadow from a price sticker on front cover of dj. Apparently unread and unopened for several decades. CE. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 179 pages. A review copy with laid in slip. A collection of short stories translated from the Spanish by Frances Partridge. A near fine copy in blue cloth boards with some slight sunning and in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear.

G/G. 1st US edition. Jacket edge wear/tear, board edge fade

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1970-01-08. Hardcover. Good. 2.5381 in x 21.3198 in x 13.9594 in. Ex-library book, Usual stamps and markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Clean copy in good condition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by Frances Partidge. Octavo. 179pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a bit of wear at the spine ends.

GOLLANCZ. LONDON 1970. Near Fine. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. First English Language Edition. Near fine in a Nf. dj. (Faint foxing at top edge. A few short edge tears in dj.) Sharp copy of an elusive title. Stories. .

[Latin American Literature] CARPENTIER, Alejo. The War of Time. Translated by Frances Partridge. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1970. First edition. 8vo, pp191. Claret cloth in yellow dust jacket. Collection of five fictional novellas and short stories by the Cuban author and musicologist, Alejo Carpentier. Carpentier strongly aligned with Latin American revolutionary movements and found himself deep in the arts and cultural groups of Latin America which lent him to be a great literary influence during the Latin American Boom. This compilation of stories delves into a surrealist work of fiction traveling through South and Central America, Europe, space, and time. Carpentier collides the worlds of politics, history, and magical realism in the entirety of his renegade writings. Top of spine of dust jacket slightly pulled and price clipped, dust jacket shows minor foxing. Overall very good condition.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1970-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Victor Gollancz, London., 1970. First U.K. edition. Translated by Frances Partridge. Octavo. 191 pages. Five stories.Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by the translator to the Bloomsbury artist Eardley Knollys: "Eardley with love from Franny & in gratitude for his help". Head of spine and one corner slightly bumped. Very good indeed in very good, slightly dusty dustwrapper.