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First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. 898 pages."Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women have disappeared. In the words of The Washington Post, "With 2666, Roberto Bolaño joins the ambitious overachievers of the twentieth-century novel, those like Proust, Musil, Joyce, Gaddis, Pynchon, Fuentes, and Vollmann, who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge and stylistic verve to offer a grand, if sometimes idiosyncratic, summation of their culture and the novelist's place in it. Bolaño has joined the immortals.""

New Directions, 2011. First edition. As new and bright black boards with red titles. Quite impressive and becoming scarce

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 250 p. 24 cm. Cream hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket.

EA, 31x24 cm, 118 S., OKart., gut erhalten Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung kann in folgende Länder KEIN Versand mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Finnland, Frankreich, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien.

First British Edition, fine unread in fine DJ. ; 9.4 X 6.2 X 1.1 inches

Glossy hardcover with a slipcase not a DJ. A very nice edition.

A fine unread copy in DJ. First British edition. ; 8.66 X 5.51 X 0.79 inches

UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Book in unread, FINE condition. `Amulet is a short, original, engaged and engaging novel; a good introduction to the longer works of this writer. Roberto Bolaño's prose, which moves between the colloquial, abrupt and deliberately awkward, and the lyrical, cannot be easy to translate. Chris Andrew has done it beautifully' --Times Literary Supplement

First printing with complete number string. Slight creasing to bottom right hand corners pf pages 229 to 234 due to a production fault but not affecting the text. A firm, clean copy in complete dustwrapper which has a slight crease to the bottom edge of the rear panel. Book appears unread.

New York: New Directions. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0811217051 . 280 pages .