Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
TWICE INSCRIBED NERUDA, PABLO. Obras Completas. Extensively illustrated with photographic reproductions throughout. 8vo, publisher's gilt-stamped red roan, top edges gilt, overall rubbing and skinned slightly along edges in places, covers slightly bowed and bubbled; front hinge starting, old glue and tape remnants on pastedowns. Buenos Aires, 1956

Additional Details

first spanish language edition and first published edition anywhere. Inscribed and signed on both the half-title ("Pablo y Camilo"), and on the recto of the portrait frontis with full signature in Neruda's characteristic green ink and warmly inscribed to Adele Lopez Gomez. Scarce surviving example of this fragile book.