PRINTED FOR DEVOTO AND INSCRIBED TO HIM
ALBERTI, Rafael. De los Sauces. Dos poemas de Rafael Alberti con un grabado de Maria Carmen. Buenos Aires, [Francisco A. Colombo], 1940.
Large folio (41 x 27 cm); pp. [10], printed on thick paper, with a full-page drypoint illustration by Maria Carmen Aráoz Alfaro, signed by the artist and numbered 3/25; a reproduction of two manuscript poems by Alberti; and a typographic reproduction of the same poems; a fine copy, uncut and unsewn as issued; in the original green printed wrappers with original glassine; stamp of Daniel Devoto and Maria Beatriz del Valle-Inclán to inside front wrapper; green card slip-case (worn and damaged).
First edition, one of only 30 copies, of which ours is one of 5 ‘fuera de comercio’: ‘Ejemplar: 3 impreso para Don Daniel J. Devoto’. With a signed inscription to Devoto covering the first (blank) leaf: ‘A Daniel Devoto, su amigo Rafael Alberti, 1942, Buenos Aires’.Not in OCLC or the British Library catalogue.
£1500
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