FUENTES, Carlos. Terra Nostra. Trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. London: Secker and Warburg. 1977. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Publisher’s purple cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Jacqueline Schuman. A very good or better copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. A few mild spots to the textblock edges and endpapers, else clean, the title page slightly toned from paper quality. The dust jacket unclipped (£5.90), slightly toned at front panel upper, gently crimped, but a sharp copy.

The uncommon British edition of one of Fuentes’ major novels, an epic allegorical fable of Philip II of Spain’s reign. Uncommon.