Matador: A Novel

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8x5x1. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with small chips and small tears, jacket spine lightly toned. Pencil name on front endpaper. 1934 Hard Cover. 417 pp. "The scene of this novel is present day Granada--the very name suggests color and romance. There, in the Casa del Matador, lives Don Jose Diaz Marquez--once the great Bailarin, idol of the bull ring--and his three sons: Pepe, the rising young matador, a poor copy of his father; Miguel, the hunchback; and Juan, the poet and dreamer." "Marguerite Steen (12 May 1894 – 4 August 1975) was a British writer, most popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Her first major success was Matador (1934), for which she drew on her love of Spain, and of bullfighting.