Carlos Fuentes (trans. Sam Hileman) First Editions

• Where the Air Is Clear — 1960 · Ivan Obolensky, New YorkFirst English edition, translated by Sam Hileman: Ivan Obolensky cloth in dust jacket, New York, 1960. Translation of 'La región más transparente.' Note the unusual US publisher (Ivan Obolensky / McDowell, Obolensky). The true first edition is the Spanish 'La región más transparente' (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City, 1958). The 1960 Ivan Obolensky is the first English-language edition. Later Farrar/Noonday and Dalkey Archive paperbacks are reprints, not the Obolensky cloth first.
• The Death of Artemio Cruz — 1964 · Farrar, Straus & Company, New YorkFirst English edition, translated by Sam Hileman: Farrar, Straus & Company, New York, 1964, octavo, 306 pages. Bound in black paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, with red endpapers and a red topstain. First-issue dust jacket has a black and yellow spine with a monochrome flower design and orange, red and white lettering; the printed price should be present on the unclipped…. The true first edition is the Spanish 'La muerte de Artemio Cruz' (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City, 1962). The 1964 Farrar, Straus is the first English-language edition. A later Alfred MacAdam translation (1991) is a distinct new translation, not a reprint of the Hileman text. Later Noonday/Farrar, Straus paperbacks reprint the Hileman translation and are not the 1964 cloth first.
• Terra Nostra — 1976 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New YorkFirst English-language edition, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1976, octavo, 778 pages, first printing stated on the copyright page. Bound in quarter cloth, plum/purple cloth spine over red paper-covered boards, in a dust jacket carrying the printed price at the front flap (present, unclipped price preferred; never state the amount). Translation of 'Terra Nostra' (1975). The true first edition is the Spanish 'Terra Nostra' (Editorial Joaquin Mortiz, Mexico, 1975; also Seix Barral, Spain, 1975). The 1976 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, identified by the stated first printing and the plum-spine/red-board quarter-cloth binding, is the first English-language edition. Later paperbacks (FSG, Penguin, Dalkey Archive) are reprints, not the 1976 FSG cloth first.
• The Old Gringo — 1985 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New YorkFirst English edition, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden with the author: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, October 1985, octavo, 199 pages. Bound in white cloth spine over burnt-orange paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, in the publisher's decorated dust jacket whose printed price should be present on the flap. A translation of 'Gringo viejo'; the novel is built around the disappearance of the American…. The true first edition is the Spanish 'Gringo viejo' (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1985). The English Farrar, Straus & Giroux edition appeared in 1985 as well; the Spanish is generally cited as the true first, and some sources place the English translation in the year following the Spanish. The English text differs from the Spanish in wording and chapter count, reflecting the author's collaboration on the…. Later Harper and Farrar, Straus paperbacks (including the FSG Classics reissue) are reprints, not the 1985 white-cloth-and-orange-boards cloth first.

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