Hardcover book with dust jacket, light wear to book edges.

Hardcover book with dust jacket, light wear to book edges.

0151105553. The Nobel Prize winner's first book to be translated into

0151105553. The Nobel Prize winner's first book to be translated into English. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. First American printing. Remainder mark on top edge, else very good in a very good (light abrasion from a removed sticker on front panel) dust jacket.

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. First United States Edition

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. First United States Edition edition, first printing, with full letter line including the A. Hardcover. Quarter oatmeal cloth over cream paper-covered boards, with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on front flap ($17.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy, with black remainder pen line to lower edge block, as so common with this title. Octavo, 298 pages. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. BALTASAR AND BLIMUNDA, Saramago's first book published in the United States, is a historical novel set in 18th-century Portugal that blends love, mysticism, and political satire around the building of the Mafra convent. José Saramago (19222010) was a Portuguese novelist and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1998), author of BLINDNESS, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS CHRIST, and ALL THE NAMES.