FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.409. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper. No inscriptions or price-clipping. A clean, fine copy. The Nobel-winning Peruvian writer's first novel, set among the cadets at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, which he attended as a teenager. The novel portrays the school so scathingly that its leadership burned a large number of the first (Spanish language) copies and condemned the book as Ecuadorian propaganda against Peru. Seller Inventory # 48860

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Title: The Time of the Hero [The City and the Dogs]

Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 1959

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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Adrian Harrington Ltd occupies the rare book room on the first floor of the iconic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells which was established in 1898. We are a large high street bookshop with a stock of tens of thousands of books, prints, maps and ephemeral items. Adrian Harrington specialise in Literature, modern first editions, Ian Fleming, children's books, history, travel, and general antiquarian books. Opening hours are Monday - Saturday 9.30am - 5.30pm. Visit our website at www.harringtonbooks.co.uk

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