Author: POSSE, ABEL
Title: The Dogs of Paradise
Description: London, Hamish Hamilton. 1990, First. (ISBN: 0241129346). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good copy which has a small indentation to lower front board and a name and date to front endpaper else unmarked. Dustjcket has fading to spine, a little wear to top edges and is not price-clipped. 303 pages. FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Translated frome the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. A marvellous Latin-American novel about the discovery of the Americas, which won the prestigious Romulo Gallegos Prize for the best novel written in Spanish over the previous five years. Set in Fifteenth Century Spain and the New World and focuses on the conquest of Latin-America and the abuse of its inhabitants by the Spanish in subsequent centuries. D4B. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Discovery of the Americas, Spanish Conquistadors, 15th Century Spain 0241129346


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