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First edition, near fine a little ding to top boards no DJ as issued.

First edition, near fine a little ding to top boards no DJ as issued.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Advance review copy in wrappers, fine condition.

Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1996. First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s stiff illustrated paper wraps, french flaps. Light foxing to edges, light creasing and minor edgewear to wraps, occasional marginal ink and pencil marks. Very good. First edition. 8vo. First edition of Roberto Bolaño’s novella, based on the last chapter of his fictional history, Nazi Literature in the Americas. Estrella distante ("Distant Star") centers on a Chilean poet and military pilot who commits atrocities during and after the Pinochet dictatorship in order to advance his own vision of New Chilean Poetry.

Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1996. First edition. 237 pp. 8vo. Some light toning to spine and along spine on back cover of self-wrappers, otherwise fine. First edition. 237 pp. 8vo. A darkly-comic fictional encyclopedia or anthology of right-wing literary figures in the Americas. It is structured as a series of biographical sketches of major figures, followed by a glossary of further writers, publishers, periodicals, and a bibliography of works. The authors and works are invented, but weave among historical figures and milieus – namely World War II – in order to create a sinister tapestry of unofficial fascism in society and literature. Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was likely the first and biggest literary sensation of the Twenty-First Century. He was born in Chile, then moved to Mexico as a youth, but returned to take part in Salvador Allende's socialist revolution in 1973. He was imprisoned, but released by some guards who were his childhood classmates, and returned to Mexico where he founded an avant-garde poetic movement called Infrarrealismo, which he fictionalized in his most famous novel, The Savage Detectives (1998). He eventually moved to Spain, got married, and had children, and turned to novel writing to support his family. His first book published in English – By Night in Chile – was released by New Directions the year he died to critical praise. In the years after his death sixteen more books of poetry and prose have been released, including his magnum opus, 2666.