Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
Baltimore: Published for the Library of Congress by the Johns Hopkins Press, (1972). 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Quarto size, 265 pp. Near fine / near fine. Item #CNJL2574
From the publisher's description on the back panel: "Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature...She taught at four American colleges...was a delegate from Chile to the United Nations and served on the Committee for Women's Rights...."; these just a few of the insights into this important writer.
On the front flap is a blurb by W.S. Merwin: "A moving and powerful voice, one that must be known if we are to pretend to an understanding of modern Latin American poetry."
___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full light brown cloth over boards, red spine "label" stamped with gilt lettering, orange endpapers; binding quarto size (9 3/4" by 6 7/8"), pagination: [i-vi] vii-xxix [1, blank] [1-2] 3-235. In a heavy sienna paper jacket, Frasconi woodcut on the front panel (the same as the frontispiece), brown lettering, reproduction of a black-and-white photograph on the back panel of Mistral with Dana.
___CONDITION: Volume is near fine, the boards clean, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some light creases to the first approximately 20 pages at the bottom fore-edge corner (the largest just a few millimeters), else fine. The jacket also near fine, clean and with only a modicum of edgewear, light sunning to the spine, and price-clipped.
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