The Guitar

First English language edition, first printing.  94pp.  Burgundy cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine.  12mo.  Cloth is a little worn and marked, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine tips.  Text block edges a little toned.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.   In its original dust jacket, rubbed on corners, a little bumped at edges and shelf worn, sunned over spine. del Castillo (1933-2024) as child was interned with his mother in a concentration camp during the second world.  Strong influenced by Fyodor Dostoevsky, his writing received many awards.  The Guitar, a study in loneliness, opens a window on the dark and primitive minds of the inhabitants of an isolated corner of Spain.  A strange and remarkable book, it was his second novel, here translated into English.