Guatemala, Editorial del Ministerio de Educacion Publica, (1950). The true first edition of the first volume of his "Banana Republic Trilogy" -- a fictional treatment of the foreign control of the Central American banana industry; published in small quantities in the author's native Guatemala and the most difficult title in the trilogy, which was not published in an English translation until almost 20 years later, the year Asturias was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Pages browning with age; spine creased and browned; first blank detached and laid in; a good copy in self-wrappers. [#017982] SOLD