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THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT (First UK edition - first impression - near fine copy)

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Orlando Booksellers
(Lincoln, Reino Unido)

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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Bill Botten (Dustwrapper design) Ilustrador. First UK Edition in English. First impression of the first UK edition. Originally published in Spanish by Seix Barral, Barcelona in 1970, and in English translation by Alfred A. Knopf, New York in 1973. Translated from the Spanish by Hardie St. Martin and Leonard Mades. Jacket design by Bill Botten. ***Near fine in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. Tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. The binding is straight with no reading lean. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally the book is also near fine, with none of the usual foxing to the endpapers - just some light offsetting. There is a flourishing ownership inscription in ink on the front free endpaper. No creases or tears. Pages clean and bright. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, but which has a J Cape £3.95 net price sticker over the printed price on the front flap. The dustwrapper is complete, with none of the usual rubbing and creasing found with this title. No creases or chips, just a small closed tear to the top edge of the back panel. Dustwrapper bright without any fading. ***224mm x 142mm. 438 pages. ***'José Manuel Donoso Yáñez (5 Oct 1924 - 7 Dec 1996), known as José Donoso, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States and Spain. Although he had left his country in the sixties for personal reasons, after 1973 he said his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death. Donoso is the author of a number of short stories and novels, which contributed greatly to the Latin American literary boom. His best known works include the novels "Coronación" (Coronation), "El lugar sin límites" (Hell Has No Limits) and "El obsceno pájaro de la noche" (The Obscene Bird of Night). His works deal with a number of themes, including sexuality, the duplicity of identity, psychology, and a sense of dark humor.' (Wiki) ***"The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters." José Donoso, the Chilean writer who won the William Faulkner Foundation Prize in 1962, has taken Henry James's quotation as the theme of his new novel. Set in a Catholic retreat-house of Dickensian squalor, it is a powerful evocation of superstition, folklore and the picaresque. ***Implicit in this novel of wasted lives and incongruous passions is an indictment of a corrupt, doomed society, disconnected from the rest of the modern world. The Obscene Bird of Night is a grotesque encyclopedia of human disorder, weakness and despair, with a sinister undertone of Latin American witchcraft.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper of the Chilean author's third book translated into English, a novel exploring the cyclical nature of life and death. The British edition is much harder to find than the American first edition - especially in this near fine condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Nº de ref. del artículo: 8819

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