ONE OF 150 COPIES, WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED ILLUSTRATION
ALBERTI, Rafael. Retornos de lo vivo lejano (1948-1952). Buenos Aires, Editorial Losada, [1952].
8vo, pp. 166, title printed in red and black, with portrait, and 3 full-page black and white illustrations (one coloured by hand); with an original full-page signed watercolour illustration by Alberti on preliminary blank, dated 1953; an excellent copy in the original white cloth, the original illustrated wrappers bound in.
First edition: a volume of poems published, with Alberti's own illustrations, during his exile in Argentina after the Civil War. 'Fortunately, Alberti will be remembered and celebrated not for his damp, lifeless epigrams and crudely doctrinaire attacks on Franco, the Falange and the United States, but for the disciplined eloquence and imaginative vigour which made Retornos de lo vivo lejano, A la pintura (1945-52) and - to a lesser extent - Poemas escénicos into coherent and eloquent works that represent the peaks of his poetic activity since 1936' (C. B. Morris, A Generation of Spanish Poets 1920-1936, C.U.P., 1971, pp. 240-1).This is copy no. 47 of 150 numbered copies; with an original signed illustration by the author.
£1750
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