A. Ortiz-Vargas, Las Torres de Manhattan, 1st Ed, 1939, SIGNED, Very Good hardcover w/DJ

Ortiz-Vargas, A. Boston: Chapman & Grimes Publishers, 1939. 

Spanish, First Edition, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 8 3/8" x 5 1/4", 184 pp. 

First Edition, hardcover in black cloth; signed by author A. Ortiz -Vargas, with an inscription to the front endpaper, and red annotations throughout. Slight cocking to spine, some wear, minor bumps to edges and tips, and light soiling. Good red pictorial dust jacket, notable loss and tears to edges and tips, some sunning, now in Mylar. 184 pp. Las Torres de Manhattan (Towers of Manhattan) is an ode to the unforgiving city of New York. From inside the dust jacket: "Realism and romanticism, color and sound, tragedy and comedy, superbly blended, portray the magnificence and glamour, the squalor and pathos of the imperial metropolis."