First bilingual edition of this "novella of horror and beauty" by the acclaimed Mexican author.
Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Price: $75.00
"The old woman laughs sharply and tells you that she is grateful for your kindness and that the girl will show you to your room."
A young scholar is hired by an old woman to edit her dead husband's memoirs, only to fall for her beautiful niece in this spooky and fantastical tale that NEWSWEEK characterized as "a combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesen." The story was adapted into an Italian-language film in 1966 — LA STREGA IN AMORE (also known as THE WITCH).
First printing. (New York): (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), (1975). 8'' x 5''. Original black cloth, metallic purple and green stamped spine. In original unclipped ($7.95) color pictorial jacket. Text in Spanish and English. [10], 146 pages. Jacket with some light edgewear, tiny closed tear to front panel. Book with trace foxing to textblock edges, else sound.
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