[Signed] [First Edition] 2007 SIGNED The Bad Girl 1st...

The Bad Girl. Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. First American Edition, Third Printing. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Original dust jacket, 276 p. Binding measures 9.25 x 5.75", 8vo. In very good condition. Dust jacket: edges normally scuffed, but otherwise jacket is bright and clean. Red paper covered boards normally scuffed at edges and corners. Head and tail of spine scuffed. Author's signature, in ink, found on front end-page. Text-block clean. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician.Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize, the 1986 Prince of Asturias Award, the 1994 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1995 Jerusalem Prize, the 2012 Carlos Fuentes International Prize, and the 2018 Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit. In 2021, he was elected to the Académie française. First American Edition, Third Printing. SIGNED. RAREA2007AHKB - 01/26 - HK3212

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