Mulatto

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. First University of Texas Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [7],8-298,[6]pp. Light wear to extremities, two tiny corner creases, with an original price sticker to rear wrapper; Near Fine. Reissue of the Brazilian author's 1881 novel, "a scathing exposé of his native city, São Luis do Maranhão. Polemic as well as love story, it brought him much notoriety and is generally considered the first Brazilian naturalist novel" (from rear wrapper).