CORTAZAR, Julio. 62: A Model Kit
CORTÁZAR, Julio. 62: A Model Kit, a novel. Trans. from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. New York: Pantheon. 1972. 8vo. First American edition. Publisher’s navy cloth lettered and patterned in white and yellow to spine with blindstamped initials to lower board. In the striking dust jacket designed by Kenneth Miyamoto, obviously having taken inspiration from George Salter’s colourful jacket for the author’s Hopscotch. A very sharp, near fine copy, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the top edge with a few faint spots, but the contents clean and fine throughout. The dust jacket near fine, unclipped ($6.95) with a couple of small and discreet closed tears. A lovely example.
The author’s second most-famous work, after Hopscotch from where the title of the novel takes its name—it is, in essence, an expansion to Chapter 62 of Hopscotch. Perhaps his most experimental, in which things happen all at once, or in impossible order, and/or irrationally. Pablo Neruda once said, ‘those who do not read Cortázar are doomed’.
CORTÁZAR, Julio. 62: A Model Kit, a novel. Trans. from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. New York: Pantheon. 1972. 8vo. First American edition. Publisher’s navy cloth lettered and patterned in white and yellow to spine with blindstamped initials to lower board. In the striking dust jacket designed by Kenneth Miyamoto, obviously having taken inspiration from George Salter’s colourful jacket for the author’s Hopscotch. A very sharp, near fine copy, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the top edge with a few faint spots, but the contents clean and fine throughout. The dust jacket near fine, unclipped ($6.95) with a couple of small and discreet closed tears. A lovely example.
The author’s second most-famous work, after Hopscotch from where the title of the novel takes its name—it is, in essence, an expansion to Chapter 62 of Hopscotch. Perhaps his most experimental, in which things happen all at once, or in impossible order, and/or irrationally. Pablo Neruda once said, ‘those who do not read Cortázar are doomed’.
CORTÁZAR, Julio. 62: A Model Kit, a novel. Trans. from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. New York: Pantheon. 1972. 8vo. First American edition. Publisher’s navy cloth lettered and patterned in white and yellow to spine with blindstamped initials to lower board. In the striking dust jacket designed by Kenneth Miyamoto, obviously having taken inspiration from George Salter’s colourful jacket for the author’s Hopscotch. A very sharp, near fine copy, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the top edge with a few faint spots, but the contents clean and fine throughout. The dust jacket near fine, unclipped ($6.95) with a couple of small and discreet closed tears. A lovely example.
The author’s second most-famous work, after Hopscotch from where the title of the novel takes its name—it is, in essence, an expansion to Chapter 62 of Hopscotch. Perhaps his most experimental, in which things happen all at once, or in impossible order, and/or irrationally. Pablo Neruda once said, ‘those who do not read Cortázar are doomed’.