1st Printing. 277 pages. Published in 2011. Posthumous publication of the author's unpublished novel. One of the most important literary events of our time. The first appearance of the title in the United Kingdom as a Slipcased Hardcover Edition. Published in a small and limited special print run that was not be reissued once all of the copies were sold. The First British Edition is a softcover original only. The Slipcased Hardcover Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Picador: Regular-sized volume format. Glossy pictorial hard boards with titles on the spine, as issued. Hard board slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in London to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Slipcased Harcover Edition, Roberto Bolano's "El Tercer Reich" in a felicitous English translation. His serial novel, published as one complete volume. Discovered among Bolano's papers in 2009, he wrote it in 1989, but never published it in his lifetime. Why he did not will remain a mystery because it is "vintage-quintessential" Bolano. "From the first sentence, the novel bears his hallmarks. The irony, the atmosphere of erotic anxiety, the dream logic shading into nightmare, the feckless, unreliable narrator; all prefigure his later work. The young novelist must have been exhilarated, and possibly alarmed, to discover his talent so fully formed" (Lorin Stein). "Bolano makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world" (The London Guardian). "When I read Bolano I think: Everything is possible again" (Nicole Krauss). An absolute "must-have" title for Roberto Bolano collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First British Slipcased Hardcover Edition.

A fine copy. Still shrink wrapped.