PORTER, Katherine Anne - Itching Parrot

1942. PORTER, Katherine Anne. THE ITCHING PARROT. (El Periquillo Sarniento). By Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi (The Mexican Thinker). Translated fom the Spanish, and with an Introduction by Katherine Anne Porter. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. 1942. First English translation, first edition thus. 8vo. green cloth, with pictorial design printed to front, and author and title printed to spine. A near fine copy, showing paste action to front and rear joints, and the slightest wear to one corner; in a brightly colored dust jacket designed by Jean Charlot that shows minor wear, small nicks to the head and heal of spine, and a few, tiny closed tears. .

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