Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez in a new archival wrap. First Edition stated, 1994 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. First Printing with complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a straight spine, foxed page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the second free end paper and no other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild edge wear, and no price is on the front flap as issued. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters—Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé—speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human cost of political oppression.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
