Sergeant Getulio by Ribeiro Joao (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 146 pp, publisher s black cloth lettered in gold (foot of spine slightly bumped, no internal markings, near fine), dust jacket (foot of spine bumped, slight creasing and rubbing, very good), in mylar jacket. Foreword by Jorge Amado.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First U. K. Printing. Book and Dust Jacket have light wear else Near Fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good, Not Price Clipped. American First. First edition, first printing as evidenced by a complete number line from 1 to 10; some edge wear to dust jacket including one small, closed tear at upper right of front cover; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectable condition; dust jacket is now protected by a Brodart sleeve. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NF/NF. First edition, first printing. 146 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 140 pages. (SL#132).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. One tiny chip in jacket, front flap crease. Brazilian novel.

12mo Softcover. Condition: Acceptable. 1st Printing. 141p. Warmly toned pages are unmarked except for a bookstore stamp on front fly. Wraps are chipped on edges with a crease and two chips on backside. Binding is tight with an uncreased spine.

Fine in fine dj.

hardcover. Condition: fine copy in fine dust jacket. [First Edition]. black cloth w/ gilt image of an ox on front, gilt lettering on spine; 4-page foreword by Jorge Amado, 146 pgs; red dust jacket w/ $7.95 on front flap, author photo at back; author's 1st book to appear in English. translated by the author from the Brazilian. quote by Jose Yglesias on front flap.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in a dust jacket, with a foreword by Jorge Amado. Includes a Houghton Mifflin review-copy notice stating a January 27, 1978 publication date. The copyright page is dated 1977 and shows a number line ending in 1 (first edition). The dust jacket has surface rubbing and edge wear. the page edges show spotting, and the pages have light toning. See pictures for details. Orders generally ship out on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.…

Boston, 1978. First Edition. Dust Jacket. F/vg+ (price clipped).

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Boston. 1977. January 1978. Houghton Mifflin. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0395257050. Foreword by Jorge Amado. 146 pages. hardcover. keywords: Latin America Brazil Literature Translated. DESCRIPTION - In this epic saga of the human spirit, set in the harsh backlands of Northeastern Brazil, the reader inhabits the unusual mind of Sergeant Getulio, a hired gunman capable of terrible brutality and brilliant primitive philosophy, as he fulfills a mission. His boss's orders: to capture a political enemy and deliver him up for retribution. But as Getulio is returning with his captive, federal troops intercept him and attempt to rescue the prisoner. Getulio, unable or unwilling to understand that he has been betrayed by his own boss, resists them. The only morality he knows is to complete his mission. He is a classic hero, rigid in his integrity, suddenly brought into conflict with an incomprehensibly modern kind of evil. In the end he must choose between his manhood and his life. SERGEANT GETULIO is a taut, tightly crafted novel, vivid and raw and bloody, alternately funny and poignant, but always compelling. When it first appeared in 1971 it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece and won the highest literary honor Brazil offers: the Jabuti Prize for the best novel of the year. It has since been published in Portugal and (in translation) in France. 'Ribeiro's Getâlio is a revelation. This murdering, betrayed thug on a vicious mission becomes before our very eyes a free man whom we must love and honor. How the reader and unlikely hero come to self-knowledge on his harrowing trip is an exhilarating mystery, a triumph we have forgotten to expect of literature.' - Jose Yglesias. inventory #3920.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London. 1980. Andre Deutsch. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0233972269. Foreword by Jorge Amado. 146 pages. hardcover. keywords: Latin America Brazil Literature Translated. DESCRIPTION - In this epic saga of the human spirit, set in the harsh backlands of Northeastern Brazil, the reader inhabits the unusual mind of Sergeant Getulio, a hired gunman capable of terrible brutality and brilliant primitive philosophy, as he fulfills a mission. His boss's orders: to capture a political enemy and deliver him up for retribution. But as Getulio is returning with his captive, federal troops intercept him and attempt to rescue the prisoner. Getulio, unable or unwilling to understand that he has been betrayed by his own boss, resists them. The only morality he knows is to complete his mission. He is a classic hero, rigid in his integrity, suddenly brought into conflict with an incomprehensibly modern kind of evil. In the end he must choose between his manhood and his life. SERGEANT GETULIO is a taut, tightly crafted novel, vivid and raw and bloody, alternately funny and poignant, but always compelling. When it first appeared in 1971 it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece and won the highest literary honor Brazil offers: the Jabuti Prize for the best novel of the year. It has since been published in Portugal and (in translation) in France. 'Ribeiro's Getâlio is a revelation. This murdering, betrayed thug on a vicious mission becomes before our very eyes a free man whom we must love and honor. How the reader and unlikely hero come to self-knowledge on his harrowing trip is an exhilarating mystery, a triumph we have forgotten to expect of literature.' - Jose Yglesias. inventory #26211.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English. Jacket unclipped; a little sunned on spine, with some minor general shelfwear, and one or two light scuffs on front. Pages are clean and sound. TS. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket, both slightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, writing on front endpaper, dust jacket lightly worn with creases in front flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First American edition. Foreword by Jorge Amado. Fine in near fine price-clipped with internal foxing.

FINE IN A NEAR FINE D.J. FOREWORD BY JORGE AMADO / 1978 ON THE TITLE PAGE BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS VERY NICE WITH A SHORT TEAR AT THE TOP OF THE FRONT PANEL, A CREASE TO THE FRONT FLAP, SLIGHT COLOR-FADE TO THE SPINE PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.…

Hardcover. Foreword by Jorge Amado. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 146pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight and nice first edition of this novel by the renowned Brazilian writer.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. 8vo. 4 1/2 page introduction by Jorge Amado. Dust jacket (unclipped; few nicks). Very good. No signatures or bookplates.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. 18 cm. xii, [2], 146 pages. Introduction by Jorge Amado. Minor edge soiling. João Ubaldo Ribeiro (January 23, 1941 - July 18, 2014) was a Brazilian writer, journalist, screenwriter and professor. Several of his books and short tales have been turned into movies and TV series in Brazil. Ribeiro was member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, being elected in 1994. At the time of his death many considered him to be Brazil's greatest contemporary novelist. In 1964 Ribeiro left the country for political reasons and went to the United States to study economics. But in 1965 he returned to Brazil and lectured in political science at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. After six years, he was, however, back on his academic career and went back to journalism. In 1971 his novel Sargento Getúlio was published, with which he made his breakthrough as a writer. Derived from a Kirkus review: The Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado calls this book by his countryman "a great novel". There's no denying, even from a translation (by the author himself), that this is a muscular, unyielding, and significant work. Sergeant Getulio is a killer but not a death machine of the modern style. Sent into the Brazilian backwater to escort a political prisoner to jail, Getulio, accompanied by only a driver named Amaro, gets and brutalizes his man, beating all the while through the brush and stopping overnight at a farmer's house where troops aligned with the prisoner try, unsuccessfully, to effect a liberation. The carnage throughout is unremittingly gory--the prisoner is tortured gruesomely. The threesome of Getulio, Amaro, and the prisoner become the hunted--and the book begins to have a Godot-like feel, a wasteland with morals compromised beyond horror. Getulio is clearly a monster and hero at the same time, and Ribeiro's large achievement is to keep us wondering how can this be.…

First edition. Hardcover. Bookseller's stamp on front paste-down, o/w fine in fine price-clipped dustjacket. Foreword by Jorge Amado. A modern Latin American classic.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First UK edition. Foreword by Jorge Amado. A tiny bit of foxing to the top edge, else fine in a fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition. Translated by the author. Foreword by Jorge Amado. Fine in trifle spine-sunned else fine dust jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected proof of the American edition. Translated by the author. Foreword by Jorge Amado. Spine lightly sunned with title and author inked on the spine, staple holes at the top of the cover, very good or better.

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Fair for age, some age discolouration on pages and textblock, some cover damage and edgewear.