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New York: Atheneum, 1991. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Doubly inscribed review copy of this short story collection by the renowned Chilean-American author — with inscriptions by Allende and translator Margaret Sayers Peden, who refers to this book as one of her favorite translations. 9.25'' x 6''. Original quarter black cloth, mustard yellow paper boards, lettered in red to front board and in gilt to spine. In original ($18.95) color pictorial jacket designed by Wendy Bass. Inscribed by Allende in blue ink to half-title page: "Para ______ con un gran abrazo/ Isabel Allende" with flower drawing; inscribed by Peden on leaf following front flyleaf: "For ______ / One of my very favorite translations, / with gratitude, /Petch Peden / March 1994". Two copies of original printed publisher's announcement laid in. [12], 338 pages. Jacket with trace edgewear, faint toning to flaps. Boards with gentle bumping to top corners. Interior crisp.

New York: Atheneum. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. 0689121024 . A handsome first printing of the first Atheneum in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Isabel Allende directly on the dedication page. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden; Chilean-American novelist Allende's Eva Luna is an exotic dance that beguiles and entices. The enchanted and enchanting account of a contemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed American teller-of-tales who triumphs over harsh reality through the creative power of her own imagination; 8vo; Signed by Author .

Advance Review Copy of the American edition. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Publisher's promotional materials laid in. A chapbook under the same title and by the same translator was published in 1990, including the story "Phantom Palace"

Protected by archival book jacket cover. Small discoloration on back end paper and dust jacket from book spine.