first edition Hardcover
1957 · Boston
by SPOTA, Luis
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Translated and with a foreword by Barnaby Conrad. Octavo. 233pp. Trifle worn else fine in very good dust jacket with a slice on the spine, a couple of short tears, and the lower panel rubbed. An important novel about the seamier side of bullfighting which won the Ciudad de Mexico prize. Author, matador, and aficionado Barnaby Conrad's blurb states: "The best bullfighting novel I've read. (Inventory #: 537217)