9788498414165 | Italian edition edition (Siruela, June 8, 2010), cover price $30.95

9780916583521 | Dalkey Archive Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Finalist for the 1990 National Book Award In 1988, Dalkey Archive reprinted Felipe Alfau's neglected masterpiece of 1936, Locos: A Comedy of Gestures, which drew renewed praise from the New Yorker and other magazines.

9781564782045 | Dalkey Archive Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Chromos is one of the true masterpieces of post-World War II fiction.

9780679734437 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 1991), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Describes the difficulties faced by a group of Spanish exiles living in New York City during the 1940s

9780916583309 | Subsequent edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, January 1, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The interconnected stones that form Felipe Alfau's novel Locos take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 Arabian Nights and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young 'author' "For them", he complains, "reality is what fiction is to real people; they simply love it and make for it against ray almost heroic opposition" Alfau's "comedy of gestures" -- a mercurial dreamscape of the eccentric, sometimes criminal, habitues of Toledo's Cafe of the Crazy -- was written in English and first published in 1936, favorably reviewed for The Nation by Mary McCarthy, as she recounts here in her Afterword, then long neglected.

9781564781710 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The interconnected stones that form Felipe Alfau's novel LOCOS take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young 'author' "For them", he complains, "reality is what fiction is to real people; they simply love it and make for it against ray almost heroic opposition" Alfau's "comedy of gestures" -- a mercurial dreamscape of the eccentric, sometimes criminal, habitues of Toledo's Cafe of the Crazy -- was written in English and first published in 1936, favorably reviewed for The Nation by Mary McCarthy, as she recounts here in her Afterword, then long neglected.

9780679728467 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 1990), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Tells the interrelated stories of a group of eccentric criminals, beggars and confidence artists who frequent a Toledo cafe

9780916583996 | Dalkey Archive Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Almost lost to literary history, Felipe Alfau was rediscovered in 1988 with the republication of his proto-postmodernist novel Locos; in 1990 his only other novel, Chromos (written in 1948), was published for the first time, winning great critical acclaim and a nomination for the National Book Award.

9780916583989 | Dalkey Archive Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Almost lost to literary history, Felipe Alfau was rediscovered in 1988 with the republication of his proto-postmodernist novel Locos; in 1990 his only other novel, Chromos (written in 1948), was published for the first time, winning great critical acclaim and a nomination for the National Book Award.