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Ediciones Destino, 1960. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1960. No Edition Remarks. 301 pages. Printed jacket over cloth. Spanish text. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Moderate tanning to spine.

Barcelona.: Planeta., 1972.. Hardcover. Good. 19 cm. 304 p., 2 h. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta. Colección 'Autores Españoles e Hispanoamericanos'. Laiglesia, Álvaro de 1922-1981. Medio muerto nada más . Literatura española (860-321.5"19")

ESPASA LIBROS. Encuadernación de tapa dura.

Barcelona: Ediciones Destino. Good in Good dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Slightly Soiled/Owner Sticker/Top Edge Soiled. .

Spain: Ediciones Destino, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Espasa-Calpe, 2006. Madrid. Huertas, S.A. Tapa dura ilustrada. 22x15 cm. Primera edición. Muy buen estado

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. First English edition, following the American edition by a few days (*Allen* 44; *Bleiler* p. 90; the American edition was published on April 30, 1892, and the English edition was published on May 9, 1892; also see *Wolff* 2875). Octavo. 295pp. (followed by an early state of the 24-page publisher's catalogue, dated "2/92"). Dark blue cloth stamped in gold. Illustrated by Charles Kerr. Binding has moderate wear and few small, nicked tears at tips of spine and tips of corners nicked, spine is faded and askew, spine lettering dull and rubbed, scattered moderate foxing to text, else a very good copy, with binding tight. "This is generally considered to be Haggard's finest work, a sustained, tragic story. While Nada is a sop to the romantic market, the remainder of the book is powerful, imaginative, and filled with cultural detail" - Bleiler. *The Guide to Supernatural Fiction* 726.

Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1932. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 7 7/8" Tall. 367 Pp. Original Blue Cloth, Gilt, Endpapers With Illustration By Carlos Merida. First Printing, 1932 Date On Title Page, Seal On Coyright Page. Light Wear, No Fraying, Spine Gilt Partly Rubbed Away, Hinges Cracked, Small Bookstore Symbol Stamped On Front Endpaper. With A Loose Photograph With Text In White "From The Bookroom Of Nada And Carl", With Photo Of Home Library Shelving, Wood Office Chair And Desk, Probably Circa 1932. Per Wikipedia, Carleton Beals (1893 - 1979) Was An American Journalist, Writer, Historian, And Political Activist With A Special Interest In Latin America. He Was A Grandson Of Carrie Nation. A Major Journalistic Coup For Him Was His Interview With The Nicaraguan Rebel Augusto Sandino In February 1928. In The 1920S He Was Part Of The Cosmopolitan Group Of Intellectuals, Artists, And Journalists In Mexico City. He Remained An Active, Prolific, And Politically Engaged Leftist Journalist And Is The Subject Of A Scholarly Biography. In 1918, He Spent A Brief Period Of Time In Jail As A World War I Draft Evader. Upon Release, He Decided To Go See The World, And With What Little Money He Had, Beals And His Wife Lillian Drove To Mexico. There, He Founded The English Preparatory Institute In 1919, Taught At The American High School During 1919 To 1920, And Was On The Personal Staff Of President Carranza (1920). They Left Mexico In 1921 For Europe Where Beals Studied At The University Of Madrid, And Then The University Of Rome. Back In Mexico, He Became A Correspondent For The Nation, Separated From His Wife, And Became Romantically Involved With Photographer Tina Modotti's Sister, Mercedes. In February 1928, Oswald Garrison Villard, Editor Of The Nation, Sent Beals To Nicaragua To Write A Series Of Articles. He Became Notable As The Only Foreign Journalist Who Interviewed General Augusto Sandino During Nicaragua's 1927-33 War Against Us Military Occupation. In All, Beals Wrote Over 200 Magazine Articles For Publications Such As The New Republic And Harper's Magazine. Beals Also Wrote More Than 45 Books, Including On History, Geography, And Travel. Some Of His Books Are Written For A Juvenile Audience. His Autobiography, Glass Houses, Was Published By J.B. Lippincott Company In 1938. In 1931, Beals Was Awarded The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship For Biographies.] His Biography Subjects Included Porfirio Díaz, Huey P. Long, Roberto De La Selva, Stephen F. Austin, John Eliot, Carrie Nation [His Father Was Her Step-Son], And Leon Trotsky. During His Career, Beals Witnessed Mexican Revolutions, Lectured On Shakespeare, And Was Held Incommunicado By A Mexican General.[10] His Travels Took Him To French Morocco, Tunisia, Algiers, Greece, Turkey, The Soviet Union, Germany, And The Caribbean. He Was A Ford Hall Forum Speaker In 1936, And A Member Of The American Committee For The Defense Of Leon Trotsky In 1937. The Following Year, Time Magazine Called Beals, "The Best Informed And The Most Awkward Living Writer On Latin America." During The 1960S, He Supported The Fair Play For Cuba Committee. Beals Was A Hero To The Young People Of Cuba. Carlos Mérida (1891 - 1985) Was A Guatemalan Artist And Naturalized Mexican Who Was One Of The First To Fuse European Modern Painting To Latin American Themes, Especially Those Related To Guatemala And Mexico. He Was Part Of The Mexican Muralism Movement In Subject Matter But Less So In Style, Favoring A Non-Figurative And Later Geometric Style Rather Than A Figurative, Narrative Style. Mérida Is Best Known For Canvas And Mural Work, The Latter Including Elements Such As Glass And Ceramic Mosaic On Major Constructions In The 1950S And 1960S.