The Wounds of Hunger: A Novel

Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1957. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth spine over decorated red paper-covered boards, with titling and decoration stamped in copper on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; [xii],[1],2-233,[3]pp; illus. Spine ends lightly nudges, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper, designed by Walter Lorraine, unclipped (priced $3.50) with light shelfwear and faint sticker residue to lower spine panel; Very Good+.

First published in Mexico as Más Cornadas da el Hambre (1951), Spota's bullfighting novel won the Citudad de Mexico Prize. Born in California, (truncated) bullfighter Barnaby Conrad translates the novel, which later received a film adaptation (1963) directed by George Sherman, which starred Tony Anthony, Luciana Paluzzi, and Mark Damon. [83592]. (Inventory #: 83592)