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Brown cloth boards have only light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.

The Nine Guardians by Rosario Castellanos. Translated by Irene Nicholson. 1992 Readers International reprint (c/r 1957), 272 pages. Castellanos was a feminist poet, essayist, and novelist who wrote confessional fiction and criticized male literary figures of the time. According to an essay in the Paris Review: "As a child, Castellanos was cared for by a Mayan woman, Rufina, in whose Tzotzil prayers and legends the future author discovered the joy of language. Their relationship is fictionalized in Castellanos's 1957 autobiographical debut novel, Balún-Canán (translated by Irene Nicholson as The Nine Guardians). The novel was written, Castellanos said, simply by "letting myself be carried along by the flow of my memories." It is partly narrated by a naive seven-year-old girl, who bears witness to an indigenous Mexican rebellion against the brutal feudalism practiced by her father."Condition: VG"Now I know that this is the voice I've been hearing ever since I was born."

Rivelin Press, Bradford, and Ecuatorial Magazine, London, 1981. First Edition (of 250 copies). . Stapled Wraps. Very Good/Very Good. 27 pp. Poems. Crown and corners bumped, heel lightly bumped, page edges a bit tanned. Jacket edgeworn, bumped at head and heel of spine and folds, with tiny tears at folds. Size: 8vo

Rivelin Press / Equatorial, 1981. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 28 pages. A posthumous collection of poems by the Mexican writer, her first collection in English. Translated by Maureen Ahearn. An edition of 250 copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in plain wrappers (chapbook). In a near fine with a bit of fading to the back panel of the pictorial jacket.

Very good condition. Pages are unmarked, boards straight, no spine creasing, 'withdrawn' stamp on front endpaper and lbel sticker on bottom end of spine, back endpaper has been glued to back dust jacket flap. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor shelf wear.

London:: Reader's International,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First thus. Originally published in Spanish in 1957, this is considered the masterpiece of Mexico's most important woman novelist of the 20th century. Set against the Mexican Revolution in Chiapas, the southern Mexican state where Castellanos spent her childhood, and which has a strong Mayan presence. Translated from the Spanish and with a preface by Irene Nicholson. Includes a glossary of unfamiliar Spanish and Indian words. 272 pp, Uncommon in hardcover and especially so in this condition.

Stated First edition. Square spine, clean, no writing, no folded page corners. Black mark on bottom page edge. Dust jacket clean with no rips, protected by mylar cover.