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Random house, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY, NY: Random House, 1939. 388 pp., gray cloth w/ dark red lettering; Dust jacket in clear archival\cover; Book shows fairly light wear to ends of spine & top & bottom edges of boardsl mild bumping to board corners; light foxing & soil to edges of page block; light browning & slight foxing to endpapers w/ old price label to rear pastedown; Jacket shows wear & chipping to ends of spine (including a 1/4" x 3/4" v-shaped chip at top of junction between front panel & spine) & flap folds w/ some short tears & small creases to edges overall; also worn along edges of spine & flap folds w/ a light scratch to spine panel; light soil overall / . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A collection of short stories about modern Spain and the effects of the Civil War on the Spanish people. Bates (1899-2000), an English-born writer, spent much of his early adulthood in Spain, traveling and doing odd jobs. When the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, he enlisted with the government forces and eventually made rank of political commissar. He helped to organize the International Brigade and later, he traveled to the United States to raise awareness of the plight of the Spanish Republic. Octavo. Original cloth binding, with gilt and black titles. Extremely faint stain to the bottom corner of the contents. Some mild browning and wear along the extremities of the dust jacket; otherwise a crisp, very good copy.

New York: Random House, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Stated first edition. Collection of short stories about Spain. Orange cloth binding with slight fade at bottom of spine. Endpaper gutters tanned. Dust jacket has a 1/2" tear and very slight edgewear.