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New York. 2002. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0811214974. Translated from the Spanish by Patricia Haugaard. 211 pages. hardcover. Cover Illustration by Juan Pablo Rada. Jacket design by Semadar Megged. keywords: Europe Spain Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - BOXWOOD, which can perhaps best be described as a non-novel, has none of the structural signposts readers generally expect: there is no plot, no crux, no denouement. Instead we have a mix of folklore, tradition, superstition, autobiographical snatches, cooking directions, a litany of nautical disasters on the Coast of Death - ships from afar with cargoes of oranges, typewriters, iron ore, oil, spices - elements of nature both cruel and beautiful, of man both saint and sinner, whales, witches, mermaids, ghosts, the exquisite, the crass, all against the background of Cela's birthplace, Galicia. In one of the early exchanges between reader and author that occur randomly in the text the reader understandably asks: �Isn't this getting a little jumbled? ~' �Just a shade jumbled.' �Like life itself?' �Yes, though I try not to say so.' Reader bear with him. There's gold to mine! Camilo Jose Cela was born in Galicia in 1916 - his father, Spanish; his mother, English. He studied law, medicine, and philosophy in London and Madrid and in his younger years worked as a journalist and an actor. Cela published over fifty books - among them The Family of Pascual Duarte, HIVE, and MAZURKA FOR TWO DEAD MEN. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1989 and died in 2002. Patricia Haugaard lives in Ireland and has translated a number of books from the Spanish. She is very familiar with Galicia and its coastal area. �If there is any Spanish novelist who deserves the Nobel Prize on the merit of experimentation alone, it is without doubt Camilo Jose Cela.' - Miguel Ugarte, The Nation. inventory #32373

Ediciones Alfaguara , 1966. Tapa dura. 2ª Mano. , . . primera edición, 1ª ed.,. Calidoscopio Callejero, Maritimo y campestre. de C.J.C. para el Reino y Ultramar. 84 p., 25x17 cm., tapa dura

Ediciones Destino, 2009. 1ª Edición . Encuadernación de tapa dura. Bien. El presente libro recoge el intercambio epistolar, en su inmensa parte inédito, entre Camilo José Cela y trece escritores españoles que abandonaron el país como consecuencia de la guerra civil. En casi mil cartas, las palabras de Cela se cruzan, a través de fronteras y océanos, disensiones y complicidades, con las de María Zambrano, Rafael Alberti, Américo Castro, Jorge Guillén, Emilio Prados, Luis Cernuda, Manuel Altolaguirre, León Felipe, Corpus Barga, Ramón J. Sender, Fernando Arrabal y Francisco Ayala, voces todas indispensables de la cultura española del siglo xx. Un documento excepcional sobre la actividad intelectual de Cela y sobre sus vínculos con la «otra mitad» de nuestra cultura, desgarrada por la trágica experiencia de la guerra civil. «Ahí van los dos poemas para el homenaje. Son los primeros poemas que por propia voluntad publico en España después de veinte años.» Rafael Alberti (carta sin fechar) «En cuanto a sus Papeles de Son Armadans, es una revista que, desde luego, sigo siempre con el mayor interés.» Francisco Ayala (carta del 28 de julio de 1961) «Querido Camilo José: es usted un hombre con toda la barba, aunque se la haya cortado.» Jorge Guillén (carta del 16 de junio de 1963)

First Edition, First Printing. Published by New Directions, 1992. Octavo. Red cloth boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Price-clipped dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, nicks, and small tears. 312 pages. ISBN: 9780811212229. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

Destino, 1955, Barcelona. 1ª edición. en editorial Destino.. 19x12. Tela editorial con sobrecubierta 291 pgs. (B6557)

London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Provenance: From the library of Ian Bailey-Watts. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 166p, 20cm. Subjects; Murder -- Spain -- Fiction. Spain -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Fiction. Meurtre -- Espagne -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.

New York: New Directions [2004]. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. New, in dust jacket. A pristine unread copy. Very fine/very fine in all repsects. Smoke free shop. Shipped in sturdy box with bubble wrap. 0.0.

Farrar Straus Young, 1953. Book. Very Good + Corner Bumped. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A very nice copy of this somewhat uncommon first printing..

Ithaca. 1968. Cornell University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Nobel Prize Winning Author. Translated from the Spanish by J. S. Bernstein. 206 pges. hardcover. Jacket designed by Paul V. Ciavarra. keywords: Europe Spain Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - Consistently an experimental novelist, Cela's work of the 1940s and 1950s met with greater critical acclaim than his later novels, which were attacked as unduly whimsical. MRS. CALDWELL SPEAKS TO HER SON (1953) was written in the form of a madwoman's letters. inventory #13085

First US edition, first printing. Full yellow cloth covered boards titled in black to spine in illustrated dust jacket. Neat previous owner's name to front free endpage, no other markings, some age spotting to outer page edges. Price clipped dust jacket with with some light soiling and edgewear. An uncommon Cela title in the first edition.