Fuentes, Carlos — The Hydra Head

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, clean, unmarked, minimal rubbing to extremities, but with a slightly wavy text-block (signs of neither odor nor moisture). Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Stated First Printing, but of the First U.S. Edition, translated from the original Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Considered a mini-masterpiece of Spanish-language literature, involving a minor Mexican bureaucrat who unintentionally becomes involved in the assassination of his own Spanish President." The author, Carlos Fuentes (November 11, 1928 May 15, 2012), also penned The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), Terra Nostra (1975), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor and others, being also a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. 291 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Near Fine,