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New York: Atheneum, 1991. First printing. Very good plus.. Doubly inscribed advance proofs for the first US edition of this short story collection by the renowned Chilean-American author. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original yellow wrappers. 336 pages. Inscribed by Peden on title page, "For Fernando Vega - voracious collector (beloved to writers and translators!) / Best, Peden / April 1994." Additionally inscribed by Allende on dedication page, "Para Fernando E. Vega con un saludo especial / Isabel Allende," with a drawing of a flower. Slight wear to wrappers, faint paperclip imprint to front wrapper.

1990. Uncorrected Advance Proof. New York, Atheneum, 1990. 13.5 x 21cm. 335 pages. Original softcover in protective sleeve. Excellent condition, as new. Signed by Isabel Allende with a drawing of a lower by Allende beside it. The eponymous heroine of Eva Luna returns as the narrator of 23 tales, sumptuous marriages of Chilean writer Allende's earthy characters and her celestial version of magical realism. Although other figures from that novel also reappear (for example, Eva Luna spins her stories at the request of her lover Rolf Carle), this collection is in no sense a sequel: indeed, each piece here can stand alone. Allende's people are warm-blooded, original, memorable. A simple lyricism evokes European emigres to South America; social climbers; outlaws; schoolteachers; Indians; a nearly indefatigable imagination explores the critical moments in these figures' lives. Many of the stories build on the intricate attachments of unlikely lovers, such as a dictator and the foreign woman he abducts or a criminal and a judge's wife. Allende's inventiveness justifies her own comparisons of her literary creation to Scheherazade, and throughout all these short works whispers the mysticism of Eva Luna herself--her well-placed faith in a world of spirits and in the immortality of human love. [From Publishers Weekly]