[Rarebooks] FS: Two important 20th Century Spanish poets

[Nina W. Matheson]

For your consideration today:

Alberti, Rafael.  A la pintura: canta de la linea y del color.  Buenos 
Aires, Imprenta Lopez, 1945. Original paper boards. Joints lightly rubbed, 
occasional minor foxing, paperclip mark on the front free endpaper, 
otherwise fine in publisher's box. Card of Jose M. Lopez Soto, Imprenta 
Lopez (the printer of the book) laid in. The card is inscribed: 
"Cordialmente". The printed statement opposite the colophon reads: 
"Ejemplar especialmente impreso para Miss Agnes Mongan", from whose library 
the book comes. Poems on 33 pp., followed by plates, a number in color. The 
Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literature, second edition, says of Spanish 
poet, Rafael Alberti (born 1902): "[a]fter the defeat of the Spanish 
Republic in 1939, Alberti settled in Argentina and produced some of the 
best poetry of exile ever written in Spanish".  $200.00

Alberti, Rafael.  The lost grove. Translated and edited by Gabriel 
Berns.  Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press 
[c1976] Fine in fine dust jacket. First English translation. Sub-title on 
the dust jacket: Autobiography of a Spanish poet in exile. Glossary of 
names and places. 323 pp.  $35.00

Salinas, Pedro (1891-1951).   Fabula y signo.  [Madrid] Editorial Plutarco 
S. A., 1931. Unopened. White wrappers unevenly darkened with several soil 
marks, yapp edges lightly worn. First edition. Of 1,000 copies one of 975 
numbered 26 to 1,000.  Considered one of the most important Spanish poets 
of the 20th Century.  $400.00



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