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First Printing, hardcover issue. Octavo (23.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in metallic red on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [xiv],[2],3-898pp. Signed by the translator, Natasha Wimmer, on the title page. Gentle sunning to spine ends and board edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $30.00), with some sunning to spine, and a faint mark on verso; Near Fine. Bolaño's posthumously published novel, divided into five interconnected sections, in which characters are drawn for varying reasons to the fictional Mexican city of Santa Teresa: "a group of academics obsessed with an obscure novelist, a doddering philosophy professor, a lovelorn police officer and an American reporter investigating the serial murders of women in a case with echoes of the real-life feminicide that has plagued Ciudad Juárez, Mexico" ("The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century," The New York Times). 85622.

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."