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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (SIGNED COPY)
by HIJUELOS, Oscar
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0241127939
- ISBN 13
- 9780241127933
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1990. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. 1st printing. Crown Octavo size (8vo). 407pp. Pulitzer Prize winning novel, inscribed and signed by author on half title leaf __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW copy (faint shelf rub to head of spine, front cover bottom corner tip slightly bumped) in a lightly edge-rubbed VERY GOOD complete Dust Jacket (tiny chips to bottom flap fold corner tips, looks fine in its removable transparent protector). ... __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS
Synopsis
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a 1989 novel by Oscar Hijuelos. It is about the lives of two Cuban brothers and musicians, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, who immigrate to the United States and settle in New York City in the early 1950s. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1990, being the first novel by an American-born Hispanic to do so. It was the basis for a 1992 motion picture, The Mambo Kings, as well as a musical in 2005.
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- David Bunnett Books
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- Title
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (SIGNED COPY)
- Author
- HIJUELOS, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0241127939
- ISBN 13
- 9780241127933
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton, London
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- LITERATURE FICTION
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