VARGAS LLOSA, Mario "The Green House" [Harper & Row, 1968] 1st Printing

VARGAS LLOSA, Mario. The Green House.

New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1968. First edition, first printing. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Hardcover in publisher’s cloth, in original dust jacket. A clean, well-preserved copy with light general handling; jacket bright with a small closed tear at the upper right front corner. Near Fine.

Winner of the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, The Green House is one of Vargas Llosa’s early masterpieces, weaving together multiple narrative threads across the Peruvian desert and jungle to explore corruption, desire, and power with structural ambition and stylistic innovation that helped define the Latin American Boom.