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.
