Buy this book on-line Carpentier, Alejo : The Lost StepsAlfred A. Knopf, New York, 1976
Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket, 8vo, 278 pp., Translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onis; introduction by J.B. Priestley. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Carpentier, Alejo : The Lost Steps. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. CARPENTIER**, ALEJO: : THE LOST STEPSLONDON.GOLLANCZ,1956. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG-.No owner inscription,no price-clip to dw/dj.Yellow
dw/dj with red+black letters with slight shelf-wear and some minimal creasing to edges with a small closed tear to top front edge.Dw/dj spine/backstrip slightly darkened as usual/normal and there is some chipping with minimal loss - letters unaffected though - to both head+foot of spine/backstrip which is also slightly bumped.Top edge darkened and dust-soiled, fore-edge less darkened but slightly foxed
with some minimal foxing also to eps,half- title+title page edges and then the remaining page-edges throughout the book.
Contents generally clean and sound with a tiny, closed crease tear to foot of pp131/34,towards the spine/backstrip and no dog-ear creasing to corners.Burgundy paper-covered bds with stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white
eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-278pp includes author's 2pp note at rear.
Author's major work and collectible, debut novel from the 1950's by the Cuban author.Originally published in Mexico in 1953 and in Spanish as 'Los Pasos Perdidos',this translation by Harriet de Onis,is the first English text and publication; preceding the more common US edn and therefore the true,1st English edn.
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