Publicado por Harper & Row, 1978
ISBN 10: 0060144947 ISBN 13: 9780060144944
Librería: Book Trader Cafe, LLC, New Haven, CT, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. First printing with full number line and "0178" inside jacket. Jacket is price-clipped, aged and worn but is covered in a new protective mylar sleeve. Tanned pages; unmarked text; unbumped corners. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
Publicado por New York, 1975
Librería: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Wraps. Condición: Very Good. Small 4to, 83 pp., illus. Focus on Vargas Llosa's Conversation in the Cathedral; 5 Latin American Women Artists, interview with Jose Luis Cuevas, New Brazilian Writers, reviews, etc. Wrappers sunned, lightly foxed and edgeworn; corners lighlty bumped.
Publicado por Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990
ISBN 10: 0374522367 ISBN 13: 9780374522360
Librería: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: New.
Publicado por Harper & Row, 1978
ISBN 10: 0060144947 ISBN 13: 9780060144944
Librería: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. Book has some spotting on pages and edges, and a little age discoloration. Jacket has short tear at bottom but edges are good. Pages clean and unmarked. A very good copy.
Publicado por Noonday Press (1989), NY, 1989
Librería: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: VG PB.
Publicado por Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990
ISBN 10: 0374522367 ISBN 13: 9780374522360
Librería: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Publicado por Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1978
ISBN 10: 0060144947 ISBN 13: 9780060144944
Librería: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+, Price Clipped. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Book.
Publicado por Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A., 1989
ISBN 10: 0374270856 ISBN 13: 9780374270858
Librería: Rio Bound Books, San Marcos, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: TXBA
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good +. First American Edition. First Printing. Jacket has dings to bottom outside corners with 3/8 inch closed tear at bottom of rear flap fold. Otherwise a beautiful copy.
Publicado por Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979
ISBN 10: 0060144912 ISBN 13: 9780060144913
Librería: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. First American Edition. Publisher: Harper & Row, New York, 1979.NEAR FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. Previous owner's name on FFEP. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. First US Edition, First Printing.
Publicado por HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1979
ISBN 10: 0060144912 ISBN 13: 9780060144913
Librería: Rio Bound Books, San Marcos, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: TXBA
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good +. First Edition. Near split between front board and FFEP, some browning to edges, slight slant to spine. DJ shows some browning to rear panel and top edges, light foxing to rear crease. Previous owner name on FFEP.
Publicado por Noonday Pr, 1990
ISBN 10: 0374522367 ISBN 13: 9780374522360
Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Brand New. reissue edition. 260 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Publicado por Harper & Row, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0060144912 ISBN 13: 9780060144913
Librería: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing (correct number string and printed "First Edition" on copyright page) octavo hardback 160 pages Very Good condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket (now in protective transparent sleeve). Long gift inscription on front end paper.
Publicado por Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990
ISBN 10: 0374522367 ISBN 13: 9780374522360
Librería: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, Reino Unido
Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Publicado por Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990
ISBN 10: 0374522367 ISBN 13: 9780374522360
Librería: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, Reino Unido
Condición: New.
Publicado por Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1978, 1978
Librería: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nueva Zelanda
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Original o primera edición
FIRST US EDITION. Super 8vo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
Publicado por Jonathan Cape, London, 1978
ISBN 10: 0224016245 ISBN 13: 9780224016247
Librería: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. London: Jonathan Cape, [1978]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; [12],244pp. Jacket spine panel a bit sunned, flap folds toned along margins, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Bookplate signed by the author laid in.
Publicado por Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990
ISBN 10: 0374522367 ISBN 13: 9780374522360
Librería: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, Estados Unidos de America
paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap! Looks like an interesting title!.
Publicado por Harper & Row, 1978
ISBN 10: 0060144947 ISBN 13: 9780060144944
Librería: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap! Looks like an interesting title!.
Publicado por Harper & Row, E-024, 1978
ISBN 10: 0060144947 ISBN 13: 9780060144944
Librería: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Harper & Row. 1978. 244 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the half title page. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread. E-24; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Publicado por New York City, NY: Harper & Row, 1978, 1978
ISBN 10: 0060144947 ISBN 13: 9780060144944
Librería: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 245 pages. Published in 1978. The author's fourth novel. Now considered a late-modern classic. 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 hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "Captain Pantoja And The Special Service" in a felicitous English translation. Described by Raymond Williams, the most important literary critic/scholar on the author, as "the discovery of humor". It consists of brilliantly depicted vignettes that document the relations between Peruvian armed forces and a corps of prostitutes assigned to visit military outposts in remote jungle areas. The technique of "interlacing dialogue" (seamlessly conflating two conversations that occur at different times), which Vargas Llosa perfected in "The Green House", is used once again, this time for comic effect. While "The Green House" is serious in tone, "Captain Pantoja And The Special Service" is its parodistic mirror-novel. Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". He considers himself an heir to the great European cultural tradition yet his work is firmly grounded in Latin America's (not just his native Peru's) history and mythology. His aesthetics and literary practice - Vargas Llosa has embraced and appropriated every literary genre - prompted Roberto Bolano, his greatest successor, to consider him an inescapable influence, among a handful of others, on contemporary Latin-American literature. That is to say, to be a Latin-American writer is to become a Classical master of language and a Modernist artist, writing in language of the highest quality and reinventing literary form and convention at the same time. Literary genres are inventions of a particular culture's idea of imagination and storytelling, "templates" that Vargas Llosa transforms into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase). An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0060144947. Signed by Author.