Buy this book on-line F.M.ORTAS : Fifty Centimos. A novel. Translated from the Spanish by Christopher MartinNeville Spearman, London, 1963
The first English-language edition. 8vo. 223pp. Yellow cloth lettered in black at the spine. The merest hint of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in slightly dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper with several tiny closed tears and a small area of surface abrasion to the base of the spine panel, where a small sticker has been removed. Based on the author's own wartime experiences, a "violently anti-Franco" novel with a printed dedication "To the private soldier of the best infantry in the world". (Ortas joined Franco's Republican Air Force in 1936, subsequently spending some years in a French P.O.W. camp, and was later imprisoned in Spain for five years on political grounds).. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good 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 F.M.ORTAS : Fifty Centimos. A novel. Translated from the Spanish by Christopher Martin. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, livres anciens, incunabula, first editions and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |