Lorca: The Poet and His People
- SIGNED
- New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. First American edition. First American edition. Signed by Arturo Barea on the front free endpaper, inscribed in Spanish and dated April 1952. xvi, 176 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with black lettering. Lima's notes in pencil at front, else Near Fine, in About Very Good dust jacket with chipping along spine panel, small stain to back panel, tape mends on verso, unclipped ($3.00).
A rare signature from the author of the classic Spanish Civil War memoir Forging of a Rebel on his biography of gay Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was murdered by Francoist forces in 1936. This copy's former owner was Robert Lima, a Cuban-born poet, playwright and professor at Penn State; he edited and translated the first critical book on Borges to appear in English and was also quite friendly with Mario Vargas Llosa, among other Latin Americans.
Details
Title
Lorca: The Poet and His People
Author
Barea, Arturo; Ilsa Barea [Translator]
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company: New York
Date
1949
Edition
First American edition