Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of The Perpetual Orgy by Mario Vargas Llosa in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 1986 Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First Printing 1986 stated.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on the straight spine, foxed top 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 first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with price on the front flap, mild surface and edge wear, and looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
The book’s first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert’s method, his mania for documentation, and the novel’s literary sources; the third situates it in literary history. Vargas Llosa’s first work of non-fiction will send the reader back to Flaubert’s masterpiece with renewed interest.
Ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
