Elegia by Edwin Rolfe (2 results)
Published by Talleres Graficos de la Compania, 1949
- Softcover
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.Books From California
Contact seller4-star sellerPaperback. Condition: Good. Scarce, original booklet printing, unstapled binding. Tanning to covers. Pages clean.
More imagesPublished by (Talleres Graficos de la Compania Editora y Librera), Mexico, 1949
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
£ 152.48
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Spanish edition. Translated by J. Rubia Barcia. Octavo. 8pp. Blue printed wrappers. Text laid into wrappers. Faint tanning on spine, else a near fine, bright copy. Edwin Rolfe was born Solomon Fishman, the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia. He was a member of the Communist party, and wro…te for The Daily Worker. He published his first book of poems, *To My Contemporaries,* in 1936. Edwin Rolfe was blacklisted in 1947, and spent much of the rest of his life struggling against McCarthyism, reflected in his poems with anti-American sentiment. He died in 1954. Author Clayton Eshleman's copy, with his ink signature: "Clayton Eshleman. Los Angeles 1974" on front flyleaf.
