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New York. 2002. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0811214974. Translated from the Spanish by Patricia Haugaard. 211 pages. hardcover. Cover Illustration by Juan Pablo Rada. Jacket design by Semadar Megged. keywords: Literature Spain Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - BOXWOOD, which can perhaps best be described as a non-novel, has none of the structural signposts readers generally expect: there is no plot, no crux, no denouement. Instead we have a mix of folklore, tradition, superstition, autobiographical snatches, cooking directions, a litany of nautical disasters on the Coast of Death - ships from afar with cargoes of oranges, typewriters, iron ore, oil, spices - elements of nature both cruel and beautiful, of man both saint and sinner, whales, witches, mermaids, ghosts, the exquisite, the crass, all against the background of Cela's birthplace, Galicia. In one of the early exchanges between reader and author that occur randomly in the text the reader understandably asks: ‘Isn't this getting a little jumbled? ~' ‘Just a shade jumbled.' ‘Like life itself?' ‘Yes, though I try not to say so.' Reader bear with him. There's gold to mine! Camilo Jose Cela was born in Galicia in 1916 - his father, Spanish; his mother, English. He studied law, medicine, and philosophy in London and Madrid and in his younger years worked as a journalist and an actor. Cela published over fifty books - among them The Family of Pascual Duarte, HIVE, and MAZURKA FOR TWO DEAD MEN. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1989 and died in 2002. Patricia Haugaard lives in Ireland and has translated a number of books from the Spanish. She is very familiar with Galicia and its coastal area. ‘If there is any Spanish novelist who deserves the Nobel Prize on the merit of experimentation alone, it is without doubt Camilo Jose Cela.' - Miguel Ugarte, The Nation. inventory #32373 ISBN: 0811214974.

[PRIMERA EDICION].- Madrid: El Observatorio Ediciones, 1986.- 50 p., [3 h.]; 8º mayor (19,5 x 12,3 cm); Portada a dos tintas; Cartulina Ed. con solapas y camisa.- (Col. Las Buenas Lecturas. 6).* La primera hoja de guarda, tiene signos de haberse borrado con goma, alguna dedicatoria que estaba escrita a lápiz de carboncillo. Por lo demás perfecto. En este libro se reúnen por primera vez en conjunto todas las dedicatorias de Cela en sus libros, hasta la fecha, indicando además año y editorial. LITERATURA Y FILOSOFÍA ESPAÑOLAS DE LOS SIGLOS XIX-XXI Y SU HISTORIA EN GENERAL Libro en español

Cornell University Press, 1968. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1968. First Edition. 206 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over purple cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Small area of loss to bottom edge of spine. Stain to front panel. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Ithaca. 1968. Cornell University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Nobel Prize Winning Author. Translated from the Spanish by J. S. Bernstein. 206 pges. hardcover. Jacket designed by Paul V. Ciavarra. keywords: Literature Translated Spain . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Consistently an experimental novelist, Cela's work of the 1940s and 1950s met with greater critical acclaim than his later novels, which were attacked as unduly whimsical. MRS. CALDWELL SPEAKS TO HER SON (1953) was written in the form of a madwoman's letters. inventory #13085

Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Minor Shelf Wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing.

New York: New Directions, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust price clipped jacket that has some wear at the spine extremities.. 8vo., 312 pp. Author is the 1989 Nobel Prize winner.

Madrid Diciembre 1961 first edition. 12mo wraps. pp. 279-388. This issue has work by Joseph H. Silverman, Jose Maria Castellet, Miguel Hernandez, Vicente Aguilera Cerni, etc. VG light cover wear. no owner marks.

[PRIMERA EDICION].- Barcelona: Ed. Aedos, 1961.- 462 p., [1 h.]: En la contraportada un retrato de Cela, y diversas láminas a doble cara entre el texto; 4º menor (22 x 15 cm); Tela Ed. con camisa.* La camisa algo deslucida. Por lo demás en excelente estado LITERATURA Y FILOSOFÍA ESPAÑOLAS DE LOS SIGLOS XIX-XXI Y SU HISTORIA EN GENERAL Libro en español

Boston: Little Brown, 1964. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. First Printing. Small octavo, brown cloth covered octavo with gilt spine titles. 166 pp. The first book by this Nobel Prize winning, Spanish author and politician. A Francoist supporter, he was also something of an existentialist in this novel whose anti-hero commits, crimes and murders making it reminiscent of Camu's The Stranger. The New York Times calls it "After Don Quixote, probably the most widely read novel in Spanish literature." This copy is in excellent collector's condition; very tight, with very fresh cloth and sparkling gilt titles. The interior is bright white and the volume as a whole is completely unmarked, unblemished and certainly unread. In a similar dust jacket; equally tight, crisp, glossy, sharp, unclipped and pristine. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. AS NEW. A flawless copy..

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in a price-clipped very good+ dust jacket. (Small chip at base of rear cover of jacket. Very shallow chipping along edges of jacket that are trivial. ) Photo insert. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages .