1963. · New York
by Guimarães Rosa, João
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.. Decorated green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Mild foxing on fore-edge and endsheets, otherwise very good in a near fine pictorial dust jacket with a small crease in the lower panel's top edge and slight tanning at the extreme edges. First US edition of GRANDE SERTÃO VEREDAS. Introduction by Jorge Amado. Translated from the Portuguese by James L. Taylor and Harriet de OnÃs. With an appended glossary of Brazilian terms. The author's only novel, first published in 1956, and regarded as a 20th century masterpiece of Brazilian literature. (Inventory #: WRCLIT85628)