First Edition. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Bumped spine ends. Mottled spine and boards. Text block edges foxing. Free endpapers tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. Pablo Oroya, a painter visiting his wife Ines in hospital, finds himself in a wrong room, where another patient lies in an advanced stage of cancer. Next morning, the staff discover that this patient has been healed.