Poeta en Nueva York de LORCA, Federico Garcia - 1940

Mexico, D. F. [Mexico City]: Editorial Seneca, 1940. First Spanish language edition. Softcover. Very good. 187pp., illustrated with four plates (by Lorca himself), two in color. Very good in the publisher's white wraps with yapped edges. Some very light foxing to extremities (the contents clean), and minor bumping, rather inevitably, to the bottom edges. Most pages unopened. In the original glassine, which is age-toned, and has some mild tears and small chips to the extremities, most notably at the spine ends. Despite the noted flaws, a well-preserved copy of this fragile book. This is the second edition of the book to appear on the market; the first was bilingual. Lorca had spent nearly two years in New York in 1929 and 1930, where he witnessed firsthand the fallout from the Wall Street crash, along with the Harlem Renaissance and other exciting happenings in the city, which evolved into this accomplished volume. Lorca was murdered by Fascists in Spain in 1936, and the collection was published posthumously.