Devil Pay Backlands by Rosa Joao (10 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First American Edition stated. Dust jacket and book are clean. Dust jacket has rubbing along the edges with a small chip and closed tear at the front panel top edge, jacket price not clipped. Green cloth boards have only light wear. Has a very good binding. Name and date are written in blue pen on the front free endpaper, no other marks or notations. 494 pages. Dust jacket is wrapped in a protective clear brodart mylar wrapper.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First US Edition. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket. The original price of $5.95 is still present on the front flap along with the printing code 4/the three. DJ has good color but there are numerous small tears chips along the edges, mainly the top. There is also a larger chip missing at the top left corner of the spine. Green cloth boards underneath or clean with only the slightest of fading along the top edge. Internal binding is good text pages are tight. No signatures or bookplates, no library markings, no handwriting, no underlining, no remainder marks. Pages are clean except for page 17 which has a small brown spot on the right edge, center. The spot only measures about 1/4 inch in height as well outside of the text area. There is some light toning and foxing present on the end pages and pastedowns. This is due to the jacket paper reacting with the book over decades. Front end page also has a small splash stain on the extreme right side edge. This can also be seen on the exterior page edge and the jacket front flap. Copyright page states first American edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (Grande Sertão: Veredas) - João Guimarães Rosa First US Edition, First Printing Knopf 1963, Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Translated from the Portuguese by James L. Taylor and Harriet De Onís. Green cloth stamped in gilt, red, and green, red top stain, pp. [2], x, 494, [6]; A fine book in a VG+ unclipped jacket with a couple damp stains to spine, some light rubbing to rear panel, and a small closed tear to the head of the rear panel, a couple small holes to front joint, light wear to spine ends, a couple other short closed tears to edges, spine remaining largely unfaded. A former Brazilian outlaw reflects on his life and deeds across rural Brazil in what is often regarded as the greatest work of Brazilian literature. The work explores themes of courage, honor, fate, good and evil, and love. In Gregory Rabassa's memoirs he states that the novel can only be rewritten in English, not translated. The work remains out of print in English and extremely scarce with no translator yet ambitious or sacrilegious enough to reimagine the work. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing. Stated First American Edition. GIft inscription on inside front cover, mostly hidden by the DJ. CLipped DJ in archival cover.

second printing, 1963. scarce in any edition. new york: alfred knopf. 6 x 8.5 inches. 494 pages. hardcover. bound in green cloth-covered boards. book condition: owners mark to front free-endpaper. pen annotations throughout. good. jacket condition: tape repairs to spine and edges. unclipped ($6.95) good. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American Edition stated. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine plus, if not fine dust jacket ($5.95 D.T.P.I.B.A.A.K.). Dust jacket has minor, if not trivial wear to top 1/4 inch of spine. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.…

First American Edition. The scarce first printing of this experimental, Brazilian novel, which some critics have compared to James Joyce's Ulysses based on its playful and revolutionary use of language. This was Rosa's only novel, although he published short stories and poetry and was a polyglot and diplomat. "The Devil to Pay in the Backlands is like an enormous mural painting of the sweeping backland country of northern Brazil in which feuding bands of outlaws spring to life." The narrator, now an old man, reflects on his life as an outlaw and is tortured by a pact with the devil made earlier in life. This first English language edition features an introduction by Jorge Amado titled, "The Place of Guimarães Rosa in Brazilian literature." Originally published in Portuguese as Grande Sertão: Veredas in 1956. 8vo. Green cloth boards, decorative spine stamped in gilt, red and green, red top stain bright and unfaded; unclipped dust jacket has some light wear to spine ends, faint sunning to flap folds and one stain near the spine to the front panel. An about near fine copy.…

cloth. dj. First Edition. Octavo; 494pp; publishers green cloth over board; flower design embossed front coverbottom right; titled in gold and red on spine with green design emboss; first US edition; red topstain; dustjacket. Publisher's review copy with publisher's slip laid-in. Translated from Portuguese by James L. Taylor and Harriet de Onîs. A fine copy in a near fine or better dustjacket with a touch of wrinkle to the top and bottom of spine. A brilliant copy.…

First edition in English, first printing, in the rare jacket. Published in Portuguese as Grande Sertão: Veredas in 1956, this is the book that established Guimarães's international reputation and is considered one of the greatest works of Brazilian literature. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in pink and gilt, floral design in blind on spine and front cover, pale yellow endpapers, top edge red, others untrimmed. With dust jacket. A few spots of foxing to edges and endpapers; spine panel of unclipped jacket sunned, a few chips and short closed tears at rubbed edges, one longer closed tear at foot of front panel: a fine copy in very good jacket.…

dj. First American Edition. Post-World War II publishing in the United States saw a surge of interest and support for inter-American, or South American, literature in translation. Largely due to the efforts of Blanche Knopf, considered by many to be the soul of the publishing firm, and bolstered by her role in the US Good Neighbor Policy, many Second Generation Brazilian and other Latin American writers appeared in print in English for the first time, Garcia Marquez, Jorge Amado, Vargas LLosa, and Clarice Lispector, to name a few. "Grande Sertao, Veredas" or "The Devil To Pay in the Backlands," is considered a masterpiece of modernism, using neologisms and other linguistic constructs to summon for the first time, the authentic language of the people of the backlands of Brazil, posing challenges to the translator, yet boasting comparisons with Joyce's "Uysses" . G Rosa'was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1967 but his sudden death that same year eclipsed his chances for the Prize. Fine in very good bright dust jacket with some toning edges and light wear extremities, closed tear top edge rear panel, tiny puncture lower spine, a handsome copy in mylar cover.…