Item #140944474 Lorca: The Poet and His People. Arturo Barea, Ilsa Barea.
Lorca: The Poet and His People
Lorca: The Poet and His People
Lorca: The Poet and His People
Lorca: The Poet and His People
Lorca: The Poet and His People

Lorca: The Poet and His People

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.

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. Item #140944474

Price: $1,500.00

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