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First US edition, first prnt. Originally published in Spain as Cuetos de Eva Luna. Translated by Margaret Peden Sayers. Signed by Allende with her flower graphic on the front free endpage. Small nick on front board bottom edge; otherwise, a Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Allende's first story collection. Image of actual book; not a stock photo.

Size: 108x16x152; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: Atheneum, 1991 First printing of the first American edition. Inscribed to Danna and signed by Isabel Allende, along with her trade mark drawing of a flower. Light shelf wear to edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light wear to corners and spine ends and mild age-toning to cover margins and inside flaps, else fine.

Atheneum, 1991-01-23. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Inscribed by the author. As new.

ATHENEUM. NY 1991. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0689121024 . First American edition. SIGNED by Isabel Allende on half-title page. About fine in fine dust jacket. (A few tiny specks of foxing at edges. ) .

Size: 108x16x152; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

First American edition. SIGNED by Isabel Allende on half-title page. About fine in fine dust jacket. (A few tiny specks of foxing at edges. )

1990. Uncorrected Advance Proof. New York, Atheneum, 1990. 13.5 x 21cm. 335 pages. Original softcover in protective sleeve. Excellent condition, as new. Signed by Isabel Allende with a drawing of a lower by Allende beside it. 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. [From Publishers Weekly]