first edition Hardcover
1926 · New York
by AZEVEDO, Aluizio
New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1926. Hardcover. Good/Good. First English-language edition in variant jacket, priority unknown. Translated by Harry M. Brown. Gift inscription on front fly. Binding a bit cocked with a dulled spine and moderate general wear, short split on the lower hinge neatly strengthened, lacking the frontispiece thus good only in a price-clipped and spine-toned, good only variant dust jacket with short chips and tears, a couple of splash marks on the spine, and three internal tape reinforcements. The first English-language edition of Azevedo's 1890 novel *O Cortiço* (*The Slum*), about the lives of a diverse cast of characters (truncated)
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