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	1 A Simple Havana Melody Hijuelos, Oscar HarperCollins Publishers New York, NY, U.S.A. 2002 Hard Cover Fine, Fine First Edition 0060175699 / 9780060175696 Advanced Reading Copy (ARC) BW1 - As new same immaculate condition in which it was published. Dj., as new, in a removable archival cover. DJ has round label on the front indicating that this is an Advance Promotional Copy. From a Pulitzer Prize winning Author. It is 1947 and Isreal Lewis, a Cuban composer whose life had once been a dream of music, love and sadness, is returning to Habana, Cuba from Spain, where he has just recoverd from the physical and spiritual malaise resulting from his experiences in Paris, then Buchenwald, during the Nazi occupation of France. DAD 585  Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Dark Dude Hijuelos, Oscar Atheneum Books for Young Readers New York 2008 Trade Paperback Very Good, No Jacket as Issued Signed by Author Advance Reading Copy (ARC) Z3 - An advance reader's copy trade paperback book SIGNED by author in very good condition has some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. How do you escape yourself? 8.25"x5.5", 435 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. EC38889BB  Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3 Empress of the Splendid Season Hijuelos, Oscar HarperCollins New York 1999 Trade Paperback Very Good, No Jacket as Issued Advance Reading Copy (ARC) BC3 - An advance reader's edition trade paperback book in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinkling and chipping, "ADVANCE" written on the bottom page edges, lightly cocked, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9"x6", 326 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. EC37414BB  Price: 10.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4 Our House in the Last World Hijuelos, Oscar Washington Square Press New York, New York, USA 1990 Trade Paperback Very Good, No Jacket as Issued 0671727222 / 9780671727222 BD1 - A trade paperback book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor overallshelf wear plus some light bumping of the front bottom left corner. The story of a family from rural Cuba who come to New York City with little but their great dreams. The main character is born there and grows up knowing the harsh city streets and hearing stories of a Cuba of tangos, dance contests, cockfights and poetry. His parents never adjust to the change but their son is a product of it. This is the author's first novel. The author is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize plus numerous literary awards and fellowships. By the author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," "Empress of the Splendid Season," "The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien," and "Mr. Ives' Christmas." 253p. SCW02440  Price: 3.50 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5 The Empress of the Splendid Season Hijuelos, Óscar Harper Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers New York, New York, USA 2000 Trade Paperback Very Good-,  0060928700 / 9780060928704 CE2 - A trade paperback book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear primarily in the form of some yellowing on the outside paper edges plus there are two staple holes on the front cover plus there is one dogeared page. A book about the joys, desires, and disappointments of assimilation into American life witnessed through the experience of a formerly prosperous Cuban émigré who is now a cleaning woman in New York city. This is a New York Time Notable Book. The author is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a Rome Fellowship of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a grant from the National endowment for the Arts. By the author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," "Our House in the Last World," "the Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien," and "Mr. Ives' Christmas." 342p. SCW08933  Price: 3.50 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Hijuelos, Oscar Perennial Library/ Harper & Row, Publishers New York, New York, USA 1994 Trade Paperback Good, No Jacket as Issued 0060973277 / 9780060973278 BU2 - A trade paperback book in good+ to very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is some creasing on the spine plus there is some light rubbing overall on the covers. A novel set in 1949 when two young Cuban miusicians immigrate from Havana to New York to pursue their careers. It is the era of the mambo and their orchestra earns them the title of Mambo Kings. It becomes a golden time for them and thirty years later the look back at it with nostalgia and deep affection. By the author of "Our House in the Last World" and "Mr. Ives' Christmas." 407p. SCW06947  Price: 3.50 USD Add to Shopping Cart