Dom Casmurro

Translated from the Portuguese by Helen Caldwell. First UK edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 240pp. Cloth a little marked and faded in places. Some off-setting to free endpapers. Jacket age-toned and with some chips and short tears to edges. *** First English edition of Des Assis’s proto-modernist masterpiece, originally published in Brazil in 1899, but not translated into English until 1953. Published in the US by Noonday Press in the same year. Great dust jacket design.