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Lot 359

GARCIA LORCA (FEDERICO)
Impresiones y Paisajes, FIRST EDITION, Granada, P.V. Traveset, [1918]

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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GARCIA LORCA (FEDERICO)

Impresiones y Paisajes, FIRST EDITION, half-title, untrimmed and unopned in publisher's wrappers, the upper cover illustrated with a design by Ismael [Gonzàlez de la Serna] printed in green, foot of spine slightly chipped, 8vo, Granada, P.V. Traveset, [1918]

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A FINE UNOPENED COPY OF LORCA'S RARE FIRST BOOK, SOLD ON BEHALF OF A DESCENDANT OF THE POET.

Impresiones y paisajes is a collection of lyrical prose pieces published in April 1918 at the expense of Lorca's father. They were written by the 20-year old aspiring writer during a series of four trips he made through Castile, Léon and Galicia in 1916 and 1917, accompanied by some fellow students and a professor from the university, Martín Domínguez Berrueta, who encouraged him to publish his account. 1917 proved to be a turning point in Lorca's life: he met Antonio Machado in Baeza, and on his return to Granada (despite dedicating the book to his former music teacher and befriending the composer Manuel de Falla), he abandoned his music studies and turned his hand to writing poetry.

The first edition is extremely scarce. According to Carlos Morla Linch (in En España con Federico García Lorca, 1957), so few copies were sold that the disillusioned writer gathered together all those he could lay his hands on and set them on fire. Only three copies appear in auction records (all sold in the last few years, two of them in these rooms), and we have traced just five copies in institutions (two in the USA, two in Madrid and a presentation copy in Granada).

A publisher's advertisement at the end of the book announces as "en prensa" a work entitled Elogios y canciones, but this, and the other works listed as being in preparation, never saw the light of day.

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