A Cidade Sitiada

by Clarice Lispector

 

First edition, first printing

of the novel The Besieged City

in the original Portuguese

 

Rio de Janeiro: Editora a Noite, [1949]. 166, [2] pp. Original brown cloth with black spine lettering. First edition. About Very Good with bumped corners, bowing to boards, pages toned with age, Brazilian bookseller's ticket mounted on front free endpaper, lacking original jacket. The rare first appearance of the Brazilian writer's most difficult novel in the original Portuguese.