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Lorca: The Poet and His People
by Barea, Arturo; Ilsa Barea [Translator]
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- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
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.
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- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140944474
- Title
- Lorca: The Poet and His People
- Author
- Barea, Arturo; Ilsa Barea [Translator]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- The Forging of a Rebel, Spanish Civil War, Franco, anarchist, communist, signed, Federico Garcia Lorca
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Inscribed
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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