Captain Pantoja and the Special Service Tapa dura - 1978

London. 1978. Jonathan Cape. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Small Tears To the Front and Back Top. 0224016245. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Kolovakos & Ronald Christ. 244 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Anita Lovitt. keywords: Literature Translated Peru Latin America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Both a farce and a fable, CAPTAIN PANTOJA AND THE SPECIAL SERVICE marks a new direction in the literary development of Mario Vargas Llosa. Here, through a wonderfully comic montage of letters, military documents, radio broadcasts, dream sequences and dialogue, the author combines political satire with psychology, social criticism with humor, morality with uproarious sexuality. Pantaleon Pantoja, an Army captain who has been ordered to organize a special brigade of women to service the lonely troops in the jungle, meets with such success that he is forced to disband the very brigade he created. In the process, he nearly loses his wife and mother, while battling… Leer más

London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1978. 1st British Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First British Edition. Dust Jacket in VG condition in mylar cover, light wear, £5.50 price on flap. Bright blue boards with gilt lettering in VG condition, light bumping on spine, small bit of fading on edges. Binding is tight. Beginnings of a split on front endpapers. Small bit of faint staining on edges of some pages.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Translated by Gregory Kolovakos and Ronald Christ. Octavo. 244pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny nicks.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Jonathan Cape, [1978]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; [12],244pp. Jacket spine panel a bit sunned, flap folds toned along margins, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Bookplate signed by the author laid in.

J. Cape, 1978-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!