Search Results: Hispanic from Black Cat Hill Books

Santiago, Chile Editorial Universitaria, 2001. Paperback Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of smudging to the top edge of the text block; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of minor, unobtrusive flaws. Bright and Clean. Corners sharp. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.35 x 5.35 x 0.3 inches). Prólogo de Oscar Hahn. The front cover depicts a fragment of a picture by Juaquin Torres Garcia. Language: Spanish. Weight: 6.6 ounces. First published by Editorial Universitaria in 1991. This printing with the Prologue by Oscar Hahn was published in 2001.… Read More

New York, NY Avon Books, Inc. , 1994. Paperback First Edition Thus [1994]; First Printing indicated. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR at title page. First Edition Thus [1994]; First Printing indicated. Very Good in Wraps: shows slight spine lean; several creases at backstrip; very light wear to extremities; binding wants to open more readily in a couple of places late in text than in other places; the text is clean. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 184pp. Mass Market Paperback. Black detective Lew Griffin skips his father's final illness when he's hired to find a missing person--well-known black leader Corene Davis. Successfully finding Davis, he repeats the trick three times--searching for runaway teenager Cordelia Crayson in 1970, his friend Jimmy Smith's kid sister Cherie in 1984, and finally his own long-unseen son David in 1990. The searches are understated, variously successful, and seasoned with increasingly elegiac glimpses of Lew's erratic home life (his unlikely… Read More

Albuquerque, NM University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Hardcover First Edition [1996], unstated. First Edition [1996], unstated, as University of New Mexico will often do (no subsequent printings are noted). Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ show only minute indications of use. Book shows slight bow to boards; faint indications of shelving along bottom edge of blue, cloth-covered boards. Binding square and secure; text clean. DJ shows very mild rubbing to its sheen; price unclipped; mylar-protected. Overall, very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 196pp. Hardback with DJ. Intense explorations of Jewish life and identity in the Hispanic world.

New York, NY, U.S.A. Pantheon Books, 2001. Hardcover First Ed USA; First Printing indicated. First Ed USA; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows only minute indications of use; Book shows "Entry No. 00041 Kiriyama Prize" stamped at lower front free endpaper; binding square and secure; text clean. DJ shows price unclipped; mylar-protected. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 262pp. Translated by Alfred MacAdam. Hardback with DJ. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.

New York, NY Doubleday: Anchor Books, 1993. Paperback First Edition Thus [1993]; First Printing indicated. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; just a hint of wear to the extremities; the mildest overall rubbing to the wrapper covers; the pages are fairly heavily tanned, due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. (8 x 5.15 x 0.85 inches). 379 pages. Weight: 12.8 ounces. Trade Paperback.