Juan Latino: Slave and Humanist

NY: Spinner Press 1938. 8vo (9.25" x 6"). [2], XIV, 216 pp. Includes author's translation from Spanish of Diego Jimenez de Enciso's "The Famous Drama of Juan Latino," bibliography, and general index. Ini publisher's red cloth, gilt titles stamped to spine and front cover. Spine and head of front cover sunned, some soiling to spine. A Good to Very Good copy of Spratlin's biography of the 16th-century Afro-Hispanic humanist and Latin poet Juan de Sesa, enslaved as a child in Granada. This copy inscribed by author on ffep, "For Dr. Cromwell/ with every good wish/ Valaurez B. Spratlin/ Washington, D.C./ November 1, 1938." The recipient was Otelia Cromwell - professor, literary scholar, and first African American woman to receive a PhD. from Yale. . Good. Hardcover .