Gordonsville, VA: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007. First American Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bolano's first full length novel. 577 pp translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Book has cream boards, black text on spine only. Top front corner is bumped, part of the 'T' at the start of the title is missing, ow book is as new. Unclipped (USA $27.00, Canada $33.95) DJ has corresponding miniscule bump top front corner and bit of rubbing at head of spine, ow it too is as new. Digital images available on request Laid in is a feature London Review of Books article, 'In the Sonora' by Benjamin Kunkel reviewing The Savage Detectives as well as Last Evening on Earth and Amulet. .Bookseller's Inventory # 112476.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2008. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Paperback. Original slipcase. In publishers shrinkwrap. Published posthumously, Roberto Bolano's [1953-2007] science fiction masterpiece is set in Santa Teresa, where hundreds of women have vanished in a decade. A German author, New York reporter, a widowed philosopher and a police detective set out to solve the mystery. Fine condition.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008 First Edition/First Printing. Softcover. 898 pages. Published simultaneously with the Hardcover Edition. Three colorful softcover volumes in pictorial box. Winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Award for Fiction. Translator Natasha Wimmer has done a extraordinary job. Considered a contemporary classic, it is a masterful work by the late Chilian-Mexican novelist. Becoming extremely rare, in that the softcover Slipcase Set will not be reissued once all the copies are sold, and the slipcase edition had a smaller print run than the hardcover. In the publishers original shrinkwrap. New, still sealed in original shrinkwrap which has a tear near the bottom of the back of the box, but does not impact the slipcase at all. A fine collectable set. As new. Unopened and unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box.
Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. First American Edition, 2007 stated on the copyright page with the full number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Original price of $27.00 printed on front flap of dust jacket.
First printing of the first American edition, with full number line (issued without jackets), published simultaneously with 3-volume hardcover boxed set. Fine paperbacks, clean and unmarked. Near-fine cardboard slipcase, with some rubbing on spine (as pictured), otherwise fine. Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. F3086.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 1st US 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Larger, sturdy book, cream cloth covers, black lettering very fine on spine, 577 pages. DJ glossy beneath mylar with a line design like rays on front, spine and back, a color-illustration of an eye on spine, praise on back. DJ and book, both As New.
New York: Farrar & Straus Giroux, 2007. First U.S. edition / First printing. Cream paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Bolano won the 1999 Gallegos Prize for the Savage Detectives. Chosen as Number 38 on The New York Times list of the 100 best Books of the 21st Century.
Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a fine dust jacket. First American Edition, 2007 state don the copyright page with the full number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Original price of $27.00 printed on front flap of dust jacket.
First printing of the first American edition, with full number line (issued without jackets), published simultaneously with 3-volume hardcover boxed set. Fine paperbacks, clean and unmarked. Near-fine cardboard slipcase, with some rubbing on spine (as pictured), otherwise fine. Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. F3086.
First edition, first printing (with full number sequence including the 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, new and unread. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. NOT price clipped. Shipped in well padded box. SIGNED BY TRANSLATOR (Natasha Wimmer) on title page, her name only, with no other marks or writing. You cannot find a better copy.
A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Very Good Plus Condition. Boards Have A Tiny Bit Of Shelf Wear. Not Bumped. Fore Edges Have A Tiny Bit Of Reading Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Very Good Plus Condition. Tiniest Bit Of Wear Along The Edges. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks And Enjoy.
A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Very Good Plus Condition. Boards Have A Tiny Bit Of Shelf Wear. Not Bumped. Fore Edges Have A Tiny Bit Of Reading Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Very Good Plus Condition. Tiniest Bit Of Wear Along The Edges. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks And Enjoy.
First edition, first printing (with full number sequence including the 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, new and unread. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. NOT price clipped. Shipped in well padded box. SIGNED BY TRANSLATOR (Natasha Wimmer) on title page, her name only, with no other marks or writing. You cannot find a better copy.
Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1996. First edition. 8vo. Publisherâs stiff illustrated paper wraps, french flaps. Light foxing to edges, light creasing and minor edgewear to wraps, occasional marginal ink and pencil marks. Very good. First edition. 8vo. First edition of Roberto Bolañoâs novella, based on the last chapter of his fictional history, Nazi Literature in the Americas. Estrella distante ("Distant Star") centers on a Chilean poet and military pilot who commits atrocities during and after the Pinochet dictatorship in order to advance his own vision of New Chilean Poetry.
First edition of this modern classic, which was named one of the New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the translator Natasha Wimmer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral. Jacket lettering by Jennifer van Dalsen. Translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. James Wood wrote in The New York Times, "A novel all about poetry and poets, one of whose heroes is a lightly disguised version of the author himself: how easily this could be nothing more than a precious lattice of ludic narcissism and unbearably "literary" adventures...The novel is wildly enjoyable (as well as, finally, full of lament), in part because Bolaño, despite all the game-playing, has a worldly, literal sensibility."
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