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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 330 p.

In pictorial jacket, 8vo, [12], 330, [7] pages. Contains 23 short stories plus the prologue (signed "Rolf Carle"). Originally published in Spain in 1989 under title: Cuentos de Eva Luna.

Atheneum, 1991. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Loose front hinge. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly worn & toned in a mylar cover.

Very clean used copies, signed

New York: Scribner. Very Good Very good 25 cm. Condition very good in golden boards with black cloth spine, DJ very good, clean tight copy 1st edition 1st printing. From Publishers Weekly-The eponymous heroine of Eva Luna returns as the narrator of 23 tales, sumptuous marriages of Chilean writer Allende's earthy characters and her celestial version of magical realism. Although other figures from that novel also reappear (for example, Eva Luna spins her stories at the request of her lover Rolf Carle), this collection is in no sense a sequel: indeed, each piece here can stand alone. Allende's people are warm-blooded, original, memorable. A simple lyricism evokes European emigres to South America; social climbers; outlaws; schoolteachers; Indians; a nearly indefatigable imagination explores the critical moments in these figures' lives. Many of the stories build on the intricate attachments of unlikely lovers, such as a dictator and the foreign woman he abducts or a criminal and a judge's wife. Allende's inventiveness justifies her own comparisons of her literary creation to Scheherazade, and throughout all these short works whispers the mysticism of Eva Luna herself--her well-placed faith in a world of spirits and in the immortality of human love. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1991.

Atheneum, January 1991. Mass Market . 2.1 PB worn -5%.