Of Love and Shadows - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394549627 . A handsome first US edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in about Fine dust-jacket. Publisher's promotional card laid in. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number on front paste down; At the center of Allende's second novel are upper class daughter Irene Beltrán and photographer Francisco Leal, fated, under the most desperate circumstances to fall totally in love. Basis for the motion picture starring Antonio Banderas; 8vo; [viii], 274, [6] pages .