Bewitched Lands
Costa Du Rels, Adolfo
Published by Knopf, 1945
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New York. 1945. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Translated from the Spanish by Stuart Edgar Grummon. 204 pages. hardcover. Cover: Carlos Merida. keywords: Latin America Bolivia Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - BEWITCHED LANDS is a novel of conflicting passions and loyalties, a fascinating tale of long-latent - and at last overt-violence on a feudal hacienda deep in the lush, uncharted Chaco region of Bolivia. The principal characters of this unusual and sophisticated story are: Don Pedro Vidal, aging and absolute master of the vast isolated Hacienda El Mataral; Doña Maria de Vidal, his pretty, pathetic, and unhappy young wife; Carlos Vidal, Don Pedro's son by a former wife, dead under mysterious circumstances; Mr. Treweek, a very English petroleum prospector - and the sympathetic narrator. Carlos Vidal, educated at military school in France, has been paroled in his father's custody after participating in an abortive revolt against his country's dictator. He is in rebellion against the medieval social ideas dominating his native land and summed up in his own father. The arrival of Mr. Treweek and his companion, in search of the petroleum whose existence Don Pedro wishes to deny, galvanizes Carlos into emotions, thoughts, and at last actions that lead inevitably to a series of violent crises. In the fabric of this brilliantly colored novel, Carlos's love for his stepmother is but one thread. inventory #2391. Seller Inventory # z2391
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Title: Bewitched Lands
Publisher: Knopf
Publication Date: 1945
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
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Bewitched Lands.
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Alfred A. Knopf, 1945, Nueva York., 1945
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Seller: Librería y Editorial Renacimiento, S.A., VALENCINA DE LA CONCEPCIÓN, SE, Spain
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19x13. Tela editorial con sobrecubierta 204 pgs. (D3980). Seller Inventory # 58964
Bewitched Lands
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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1945
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Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 204 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket shows small tears and chipping along edges, price clipped--now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy. Record # 510480. Seller Inventory # 510480
BEWITCHED LANDS
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Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: VG. NY 1945 first edition. Knopf. Translated from Spanish by Stuart Edgar Grummon. Hardcover. sm octavo. Bright green cloth with gilt spine lettering (spine letteringmostly faded away) and gilt decoration on front panel. no owner marks. no dj. VG. Seller Inventory # a111783
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Bewitched Lands
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Seller: Bohemian Bookworm, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG/G+, 1st edn, sl. soiling to d/w, Bolivian novel, violence on a feudal hacienda deep in uncharted jungle. Seller Inventory # 76225
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Bewitched Lands
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Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York. 1945. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Chipped Dustjacket. Translated from the Spanish by Stuart Edgar Grummon. 204 pages. hardcover. Cover: Carlos Merida. keywords: Latin America Bolivia Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - BEWITCHED LANDS is a novel of conflicting passions and loyalties, a fascinating tale of long-latent - and at last overt-violence on a feudal hacienda deep in the lush, uncharted Chaco region of Bolivia. The principal characters of this unusual and sophisticated story are: Don Pedro Vidal, aging and absolute master of the vast isolated Hacienda El Mataral; Doña Maria de Vidal, his pretty, pathetic, and unhappy young wife; Carlos Vidal, Don Pedro's son by a former wife, dead under mysterious circumstances; Mr. Treweek, a very English petroleum prospector - and the sympathetic narrator. Carlos Vidal, educated at military school in France, has been paroled in his father's custody after participating in an abortive revolt against his country's dictator. He is in rebellion against the medieval social ideas dominating his native land and summed up in his own father. The arrival of Mr. Treweek and his companion, in search of the petroleum whose existence Don Pedro wishes to deny, galvanizes Carlos into emotions, thoughts, and at last actions that lead inevitably to a series of violent crises. In the fabric of this brilliantly colored novel, Carlos's love for his stepmother is but one thread. inventory #16417 Very Good in Chipped Dustjacket. Seller Inventory # z16417
Bewitched Lands
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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1945
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Hardcover
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Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First US Edition. First US edition, hardcover, the book has a mild skew to the binding, slight sunning to the spine and top edge, a thumb-nail tear to the cloth on the spine, a small area of soiling to the head of the text block, and light wrinkling or creasing to most pages near the tail of the gutter. Otherwise, this is a solid, bright, Near Very Good copy in a price-clipped, Good+ dust jacket, which is sunned, and has bumps with short chips to the spine ends and corners, a creased tear across the spine that partially obscures the "AD" of the author's name, and some wear with a few tears to the edges. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar. Seller Inventory # 202211
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Bewitched Lands
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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1945
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First American Edition, Stated. Bolivian Author. Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket, yellow top edge, translated fron the Spanish by Stuart Edgar Grummon. Very good, dust jacket light worn on edges with some chipping, spine darkened and slightly soiled, pages agetoned. Seller Inventory # 40479
BEWITCHED LANDS
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Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: VG. NY 1945 1st American (stated). Hardcover. Translated from the Spanish. Bolivian novel. 12mo., 203pp. Owner name stamp. Newspaper review tipped onto front free blank. VG, no DJ. Seller Inventory # a37040
BEWITCHED LANDS
Published by
Alfred Knopf, 1945
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good + Pages Browning. Dust Jacket Condition: About Very good. 1st Edition. A very nice copy of the stated first edition in a dust jacket that has some edge chipped and is separating at the spine fold and is price clipped but with the beautiful dust jacket art by Carlos Merida. Book. Seller Inventory # 024513
BEWITCHED LANDS.
Published by
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1945
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: VERY GOOD. First US printing. The second book by this award-winning Bolivian writer to be published in the United States. Described as "a novel of conflicting passions and loyalties, a fascinating tale of long-latent - and at last overt - violence on a feudal hacienda deep in the lush, uncharted Chaco region of Bolivia." Originally written in French (and first published in Paris in the literary supplement of 'L'Illustration' under the title 'Terres Embrassees' this is translated from the later and substantially altered version which the author wrote in Spanish by Stuart Edgar Grummon. Striking dust jacket art by Carlos Merida. 202 pp. Very good+ in very good- dust jacket (an inexpensively produced book due to wartime restrictions, some very slight loss of paper at the upper edge of the dj, toning to the dj.). Seller Inventory # 34944