GARCÍA LORCA, Federico

Romancero Gitano  (1924 – 1927)
Buenos Aires: SUR, 1933.

Octavo (160 x 241 mm), pp. 147. 
First deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, this copy “C”, printed for Amado Alonso, being one of the 10 “hors de commerce”. 
Contemporary half calf, initials of the owner “A.A” at the bottom of the spine.

Limitation page inscribed:
‘con la admiracion profunda y el cariño de
Federico
Buenos Aires, 1934’. 
(The B and A of Buenos Aires forming parts of an arrow.)

Followed by a full-page drawing in ink of a Pierrot like head emerging from a compass, signed and dated: 

‘Federico Garcia Lorca, 1934.’

A contemporary of Lorca, Neruda, and Borges, Alonso was a leading intellectual in Buenos Aires in the 1930s and 1940s. A Spanish expatriate in Buenos Aires, he published many essays on the Spanish language.