Description
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). // In lovely as-new condition, text in Spanish, elephant folio, satin – ribbon, color-plates tipped-in, beautifully bound in peacock-feather decorated cloth, with gold paper-title- label-insert on the front panel, marbled endpapers, final endpaper features dedications and signatures by friends, to Luis Preito (Spanish film director; this book was likely presented to him in September 2001). Limited edition copy #1216 of 1810, printed by Ismael Espinosa in Santiago de Chile in 1996. Calligraphy by Maria Angelica Seguel. Coloured illustrations prepared especially for this edition, of the work of Hernan Valdovinos.