Selected Poems - Tapa dura

SELECTED POEMS (First UK edition - Bilingual edition - a rare proof copy)

Original Wraps. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Edition. An uncorrected proof copy of the first UK edition - a bilingual edition published in 1970. Translated from the Spanish by Anthony Kerrigan, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reid and Nathaniel Tarn. ***Very good in the standard Cape green printed card covers, with titles in black on the front cover, spine and back cover. The covers are generally clean, but have some browning and staining to the top margin of the front cover and the edges of the spine, with a proof reviewer's initials at the top of the front cover. There is also a small nick to the top edge of the back cover. Very slight rubbing and creasing to the edges, with a noticeable crease to the bottom corner of the front cover. Corners sharp. Some surface rubbing to the flat spine, but no reading creases to the spine and no reading lean. Spine tight. Page block edges very clean. Internally near fine with no obvious marks. No inscriptions or annotations. No creases or tears (which is unusual for proof copies which are often bumped or dog-eared). Pages clean. No dustwrapper. ***501 pages. 223mm x 148mm. ***'This volume presents by far the most comprehensive collection of poetry by the greatest Latin-American poet of our time to appear in this country.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***'Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 Jul 1904 - 23 Sep 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda, was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924). Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions in various countries during his lifetime and served a term as a Senator for the Chilean Communist Party. When President Gabriel González Videla outlawed communism in Chile in 1948, a warrant was issued for Neruda's arrest. Friends hid him for months in the basement of a house in the port city of Valparaíso, and in 1949 he escaped through a mountain pass near Maihue Lake into Argentina; he would not return to Chile for more than three years. He was a close advisor to Chile's socialist President Salvador Allende, and, when he got back to Chile after accepting his Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Allende invited him to read at the Estadio Nacional before 70,000 people. Neruda was hospitalized with cancer in September 1973, at the time of the coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet that overthrew Allende's government, but returned home after a few days when he suspected a doctor of injecting him with an unknown substance for the purpose of murdering him on Pinochet's orders. Neruda died at his home in Isla Negra on 23 September 1973, just hours after leaving the hospital. Although it was long reported that he died of heart failure, the Interior Ministry of the Chilean government issued a statement in 2015 acknowledging a Ministry document indicating the government's official position that "it was clearly possible and highly likely" that Neruda was killed as a result of "the intervention of third parties". However, an international forensic test conducted in 2013 rejected allegations that he was poisoned. It was concluded that he had been suffering from prostate cancer."' (Wiki) ***A nice copy of this first UK edition, in the rarely found uncorrected proof state. A collector's item. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9251

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