The Crystal Frontier. A Novel in Nine Stories.

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 266. Black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; black endpapers. With integral black ribbon marker. Jacket design by William Webb.

Signed and dated by the author to title-page. Gently bumped to tail of spine, with some straining to dustwrapper edges, else Fine.

Translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam. First published in 1995 by Aguilar, Altea Taurus, Alfaguara, S.A. de C.V., Mexico, as La frontera de cristal: Una novela en nueve cuentos.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. A portmanteau of stories – each illuminating an aspect of the Mexico / USA encounter – revolving around a powerful Mexican oligarch's numerous family. Winner of the 1987 Cervantes Prize. "[A] Balzacian novel in nine masterly stories." –Vanity Fair