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Clean and tight and square. Sharp corners. Appears unread. Very little shelfwear. Lightly toned pages. The dust jacket is in new mylar. First Printing of the first UK Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.

New Directions (New York), 2010. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. A pristine unread copy, very fine/very fine in all respects. Comes with dust jacket protective wrapper. Smoke free. Shipped in well padded box.

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. F+/F+. 1st edition, 1st printing. Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. A beautiful copy!

New Directions (New York), 2006. First edition. First printing, with full number line. A very fine book in a very fine dust jacket. A tight clean copy, new and unread. Jacket unclipped with original publisher's price of $23.95 intact. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. His first book published in hardcover in the USA. You cannot find a better copy.

New Directions Publishing Corporation, December 2004. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. FIRST / VG. used trade paperback edition. very lightly used. light rubbing at edges and very slightly bumped. very lightly faded on the rear cover at the spine. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws. this is a first printing of the first American edition.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. First US Edition/First Printing. Paperback. Fine/N/A. A First US Edition of the coveted 3 volume set of trade paperbacks published at the same time as the hardcover. First American Edition stated with full number line 10-1. A beautiful copy, all books with sharp corners - clean and tight. Slipcase has just a few spots of wear/marks - Near Fine.

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. A beautiful copy of this acclaimed first novel by the late Mexican writer. "The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world." Susan Sontag. "one of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation."--John Banville

rear cover blurb"Not just the great S037531552panish language novel of thisdecade but one of the corner stones that defines an entire literature"Masoliver Rodenas (La Vanguardia) Barcelonain three volumesboxed set sealedtext is unmarked book has not been read.crime of the century:the mudrer of women factory workers, over 300 over several decades

[Poetry] Bolano, Roberto. Tres. New York: New Directions, 2011. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light crinkling to the top edge of the rear panel. Tres is a showcase of the author's willingness to freely cross genres, with poems in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. "Prose from Autumn in Gerona," a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequited love by presenting each scene, shattering it, and piecing it all back together, over and over again. The second part, "The Neochileans," is a sort of On the Road in verse, which narrates the travels of a young Chilean band on tour in the far reaches of their country. Finally, the collection ends with a series of short poems that take us on "A Stroll Through Literature" and remind us of Bolan~o's masterful ability to walk the line between the comically serious and the seriously comical.

New York City, NY: New Directions, 2004. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: New Directions, 2004. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 150 pages. The author's second novel to be translated into English. One of Roberto Bolano's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Roberto Bolano's "Estrella distante" in a felicitous English translation by Chris Andrews, one of his two best translators, the other being Natasha Wimmer. Quietly released by New Directions when he was still virtually unknown in the English-speaking world and shortly after he prematurely died, it is the companion volume to "By Night In Chile", two highly original and closely intertwined novels about Chile, her tragic history, and the diabolical men - Bolano's protagonists - whose evil intentions and deeds brought Chile to her knees and very nearly finished her off for good. It remains one of the beloved author's touchstones. What exactly is Roberto Bolano's achievement? "Bolano was the first to make a true break from the legacy of 'The Boom'. Many other writers of his generation, and younger writers too, have tried and are still trying to make a literature of their own, one that doesn't languish in the long shadow of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and the other novelists who exploded on the world scene in the 1960's. Bolano made the leap seem effortless. The writers of The Boom put Latin America on the map. Bolano creates a Latin America of the mind, a post-nationalist Latin America filtered through a rootless, restless, uncompromising literary sensibility" (Natasha Wimmer). The consistently high level of Bolano's virtuosity is almost miraculous when one sees it as having been achieved during a brief and miserable personal life. It was as though he turned to literature not just to complement or complete but to change his life altogether. By the time of his untimely death in 2003 at the age of 50, Bolano was universally regarded as the greatest Spanish-language novelist of our time. "The real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Roberto Bolano collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in innumerable subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERTO BOLANO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0811215865.