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Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Original. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Original. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Original. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Original. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Original. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Original. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

First edition Fine and bright glossy stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp bright text throughout.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Condizione: Fine. First UK Edition, first impression. Publisher's illustrated paperback original (no hardback). Clear, removable, archival protective acetate cover fitted. Octavo. pp. 176, A book in Near Fine condition with slight paper toning.

Original wrappers. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (196 x 128mm), pp. 171, [1 (blank)], [4 (advertisements)]. P. [111] unnumbered. 2 full-page maps in the text, decorative headpieces. (Light marginal browning, as often, due to poor paper stock.) Original printed wrappers. (Extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, a few light marks on lower wrapper.) A very good copy. First edition. First published in this paperback edition six years after his breakthrough novel Midnight's Children, this is Salman Rushdie's first work of non-fiction. It was based on Rushdie's visit to Nicaragua 'as a guest of the Sandinista Association of Cultural Workers', but his fascination with the country had begun earlier, as he explains: '[w]hen the Reagan administration began its war against Nicaragua, I recognized a deeper affinity with that small country in a continent (Central America) upon which I had never set foot. [. . .] I was myself the child of a successful revolt against a great power [. . .]; when I finally visited Nicaragua, in July 1986, I did not go as a wholly neutral observer. I was not a blank slate. [. . .] I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice' (pp. 12-13). Consequently, 'The Jaguar Smile is about power, powerlessness, beauty, blood, death. It is about the Nicaragua behind the headlines' (dustwrapper blurb). Edward Said considered The Jaguar Smile an 'extraordinary book' and 'a masterpiece of sympathetic yet critical reporting graced with his marvellous wit, quietly assertive style, odd and yet always revealing experiences. To say of The Jaguar Smile that it is a work of art is to take full note of its literary allusions, its uncompromising sensitivity to death and destruction, its ready political eye for the funny and grotesque, and above all its understated and gripping eloquence' (quoted on the wrapper of later editions). FURTHER INFORMATION: please contact us for further information about this item and prices for shipping.

Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Very Fine. First Edition. Large, book, quality black cloth, spine very lightly askew, very bright gilt lettering on spine, light yellow color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 430 pages. Signed in blue ink beneath printed name on title page, owner's name whited out at top of first front end paper. DJ beneath mylar, glossy white background, a colorful surreal Picasso-like illustration on front, smaller at top back, praise from Jan Gibbon DJ has a tiny nick at top back tip. a Times Literary Supplement on a sheet inside. Near Very Fine DJ/Near Very Good book. Signed by Author.