THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE.

First UK edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, complete with pictorial dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm. There is faint toning to the closed text-block edges. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions. Complete with very lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is slightly faded to the spine and otherwise without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£13.99 on lower front flap).

Inscribed by the author in black ink on the half-title page "With songs of love / Oscar Hijuelos / 28.III.90". The author's second novel, first published in the USA in 1989 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. and simultaneously in Canada by Collins Publishers, Toronto. Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, it is the first novel written by a US-born Hispanic author to do so. The basis for the 1992 Academy Award-nominated film 'The Mambo Kings', directed by Arne Glimcher and starring Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas.