The Burning Plain and Other Stories

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm); orange cloth, blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine; dustjacket; xvi,175,[1]pp, with frontispiece and illustrations by Kermit Oliver. Upper right corner of front board gently tapped (though still sharp), faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.00), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with some corresponding wrinkling at upper right corner of front panel; Near Fine. The celebrated Mexican author's first book (and second translated into English, a collection of short fiction originally published as El llano en llamas (1953). (Inventory #: 58040)