Published by The Green Horse Press, London, 1994
Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. - Limited edition of 108 copies this being number 82 - Dedication from both translators on the title page - Dustwrapper a little rubbed and toned - Book ow/ solid, clean and bright in untorn wrapper - 5 pages. 12mo.
Published by Embers Handpress, Rhiwargor, Llanwddyn, Powys, 1989
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Federico Garcia Lorca (illustrator). 1st Edition. Collection of eleven Sonnets printed in a limited numbered edition of 126 copies. This is copy #48 and is SIGNED by both translators on the colophon. Written in Spanish text with English translation. Introduction by one of the translators, Noel Cobb. Printed on light grey Charter Oak paper, untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Quarter red leather binding. Maroon and black decorated paper covered boards. Maroon end papers. Tiny nick and faint scratch on front hinge of spine. Black line drawing by the author on frontis, repeated in maroon on slip case. Maroon lettering on spine with maroon cloth covered edges. Slip case has a dirt spot on spine. Otherwise in fine condition. Signed by Translator.
Published by Embers, Rhiwargor, Llanwddyn, Powys, 1989
First Edition Signed
Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A wonderful, scarce, Limited Edition translation of Lorca's Sonetos del Amor Oscuro. Signed by the translators, and in a bright quarter morocco binding. The signed first edition thus of this vibrant Limited Edition volume of the last poetic work of Spanish playwright and poet Frederico Garcia Lorca. This edition is translated by Eva Loewe and Noel Cobb, and signed by both to the colophon.Number twenty of one hundred and twenty six copies produced.With the original Spanish text and its English language translation on facing pages.With an illustrated frontispiece, and matching illustration to front board of slip case.First published in 1936, the collection was long thought to have been inspired by Lorca's passion for Rafael Rodríguez Rapún, a young actor and secretary of La Barraca. However new documents suggest that the actual inspiration was Juan Ramírez de Lucas, a 19-year-old with whom Lorca hoped to emigrate to Mexico. In the publisher's original quarter morocco binding, with cloth covered boards, housed in paper covered slip case. Light fading to back strip, otherwise externally excellent. Slip case in fine condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. signed by author. book.