Signed
Diary of the War of the Pig
Signed by the translator
Diary of the War of the Pig (Diario de la guerra del cerdo, 1969) by Adolfo Bioy Casares is a social satire set in Buenos Aires in which a movement of young people begins systematically targeting and killing the elderly. The protagonist, Isidoro Vidal, a retired man in his sixties, watches the violence escalate around him while trying to stay out of its path. Bioy Casares, a close associate of Jorge Luis Borges, uses the premise to examine generational resentment and the social expendability of the old. Originally published by Emecé Editores in Buenos Aires. This first American edition was translated by Gregory Woodruff and Donald A. Yates.
Signed by translator. Signed by translator Donald A. Yates on the title page. Also laid in is a typed letter signed by an assistant at E. P. Dutton addressed to Yates, thanking him for loaning the book.
Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. ISBN: 0070737428. #10797.
Very good copy with slight lean in very good dust jacket with some creases and nicks along edges. Also has faint marks from paper-clips on rear cover and on preliminary pages inside.
Signed by translator. Signed by translator Donald A. Yates on the title page. Also laid in is a typed letter signed by an assistant at E. P. Dutton addressed to Yates, thanking him for loaning the book.
Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. ISBN: 0070737428. #10797.
Very good copy with slight lean in very good dust jacket with some creases and nicks along edges. Also has faint marks from paper-clips on rear cover and on preliminary pages inside.