ONE OF 100 COPIES WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED ILLUSTRATION
ALBERTI, Rafael. Ora Maritima, seguido de Baladas y canciones del Paraná (1953). Buenos Aires, Editorial Losada, [1953].
8vo, pp. 164, 2ll., title printed in red and black, frontispiece by Alberti and full-page illustration by Juan Batlle Planas; with an original full-page signed watercolour illustration by Alberti on preliminary blank, dated 1953; an excellent copy in the original white cloth gilt, lightly dust-soiled.
First edition: Alberti's celebration of the Atlantic, written thirty years after his first tribute to the seas of Andalusia in Marinero en tierra. This is copy no. 2 of 100 numbered copies printed on thick paper, bound in cloth, with an original signed illustration by the author.
£1750
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