Tierra Baldia ~ first appearance of The Waste Land in Spanish 1930 ~ T. S. Eliot / Translated by Angel Flores, Inscribed to Amy Loveman

Title: Tierra Baldia

Author: T. S. Eliot / Traduccion y prologo de Angel Flores

Description: A rare copy of the first appearance in Spanish of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," here translated by Angel Flores. Inscribed by Flores to Amy Loveman, one of the founding editors of the Saturday Review of Literature. Printed wrappers. Some light soiling and uneven toning to wraps. Interior clean. 25cm. 48 pp. Housed in a green cloth-backed chemise and matching slipcase with gilt stamped, black morocco label on spine. [Gallup D556].

Inscribed ''To Amy Loveman / this translation of ''The Waste Land'', Angel Flores / July 21, 1930 / New York''. Angel Flores (1900-1992) was a literary critic, teacher, translator, and publisher. In addition to being the original translator of The Waste Land, he was also an early translator of Pablo Neruda and was the first person to apply the term ''magical realism'' to literature (in his 1955 essay ''Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction''). During the 1930's he served on the faculty of Cornell University where he also founded the Dragon Press. His papers are held at the University of New Mexico.

Amy Loveman (1881-1955) was an influential literary editor who helped shape the reading choices of generations, both as a contributor and co-founder (1924) of the Saturday Review of Literature and through her work at the Book-of-the-Month Club, which she joined in 1926, serving on the reading committee and later becoming its head editor.


Binding: Softcover
Condition: Very Good
Slipcase Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Editorial Cervantes
Place: Barcelona
Year: 1930