Description: SIROCCO AND OTHER STORIES by RALPH BATES PUBLISHED by RANDOM HOUSE 1939 FIRST EDITION AS STATED ON COPYRIGHT PAGE MAKING IT A FIRST PRINTDUST JACKET STILL HAS PRICE OF $2.50, JACKET HAS PIECE MISSING AT BOTTOM OF SPINE AND FRONT, COUPLE EDGE TEARS, TOP OF SPINE HAS SOME CHIPPING AND A TEAR, CORNERS HAVE LIGHT WEAR WITH A TEAR ON TOP CORNER OF BACK COVER, BACK COVER HAS SOME SOILING AND SCRATCHES/SCUFFS AND A SMALL HOLE IN CENTER AND CREASE AT TOPTHE REDDISH CLOTH COVER WITH BLACK & GOLD LETTERING IS SOLID AND TIGHT AND SQUARE WITH FAIRLY SHARP CORNERS THAT HAVE MINOR WEAR, NICE EDGES WITH JUST SOME MINOR DINGS, MINOR WEAR AT TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE WITH SOME DIS-COLOR AT BOTTOM WEAR THE MISSING PIECE IS FROM THE DUST JACKET, BACK COVER HAS COUPLE MINOR SCUFFSTHE OFF-WHITE BOARDS AND END PAGES ARE TIGHT AND CLEAN WITH A PERSONAL MESSAGE IN FRONTTHE 388 WHITE TO OFF-WHITE PAGES ARE TIGHT AND CLEAN* A SCARCE FIRST EDITION NOVEL IN VERY SOLID SHAPE WITH A DUST JACKET - THIS IS RALPH BATES' FIRST BOOK UNDER THE RANDOM HOUSE IMPRINT, IT IS A COLLECTION OF STORIES ABOUT SPAIN. THREE OF THEM ARE LONG ENOUGH TO BE CONSIDERED SHORT NOVELS. ALL OF THEM ARE MEMORABLE PICTURES OF THE PEOPLE OF SPAIN –– CATALONIAN FISHERMEN, FARMERS OF THE VINEYARD COUNTRY, BARCELONA TRADE-UNIONISTS, DOCTORS, INN-KEEPERS AND THOSE SUPERB ADVENTURERS WHO ARE MORE AT HOME IN THE PEAKS AND TREACHEROUS GORGES OF THE PYRENEES THAN ON THE LEVEL PLAINS TO THE SOUTH. TAKEN AS A WHOLE SIROCCO TELLS, THROUGH THE LIVES OF THESE PEOPLE, THE STORY OF MODERN SPAIN, FIRST, DURING THE OMINOUS PEACE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION, SECOND, DURING THE CATASTROPHE OF CIVIL WAR AND FOREIGN INVASION. . . * 3S16A10#26I USUALLY SHIP WITHIN 24 HOURS AFTER PAYMENT HAS BEEN RECEIVED * PAYMENTS MANAGED BY EBAY * SHIPPING IS MEDIA MAIL, SECURELY PACKAGED * SHIPPING DISCOUNTS ON COMBINED ORDERS * PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME WITH ANY QUESTIONS * THANK YOU
Price: 14.97 USD
Location: Windham, Maine
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Binding: Hardcover w/Jacket
Place of Publication: NEW YORK
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE
Printing Year: 1939
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, First Printing
Sub-Topics: Spains People, Civil War, Countryside
Author: RALPH BATES
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Short Stories of Spain
Character Family: N/A
