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Small 8°, later burgundy cloth, green leather lettering piece on smooth spine, gilt letter. In very good condition. Author's signed and dated (February 1879) six-line presentation inscription to Juan Valera on verso of half title. 113 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST EDITION of this anthology of Scandinavian poetry in Spanish translation. A second edition was published in Mexico, 1887. Most of the poets are Swedish (Esaias Tegnér, J. Ludwig Runeberg, A.A. Grafström, J.O. Wallin, J. Stagnelius, Erik Gustaf Geijer), with one from Iceland (M. Thorarensen), one from Finland (F.M. Franzen), one from Norway (B. Bjørnson), and two from Denmark (Hans Christian Andersen and Adam Oehlenschlager). Sellen has provided a preface (pp. [5]-7), and a brief biographical sketch for each poet. Antonio Sellen (1839-1889), a native of Santiago de Cuba, was a poet, translator, and revolutionary, as was his brother Francisco. During the Guerra de los Diez Años he emigrated to the United States, but returned to Havana. His translations include poems of Lord Byron. The first volume of his own poems was published in 1864.Provenance: Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824-1905), Spanish realist author, diplomat and political figure. Born at Cabra, in the province of Córdoba, he was educated at Málaga and at the University of Granada, where he took his degree in law, and then entered upon a diplomatic career (1847). He produced top-ranking works of Spanish literature; for purity of diction and beauty of style, he has never been surpassed in Spain. Pepita Jiménez, which appeared as a serial in 1874, is his best known work. Translated into many languages, it depicts the gradual loss of vocation by a young seminarian, culminating in a shattering denouement. His other novels are Las ilusions del doctor Faustino (1875), El comendador Mendoza (1877), Pasarse de listo, and Doña Luz (1879). Valera's Obras completas were published in 43 volumes, Madrid 1905-1916.*** Trelles VI, 25. Palau 306952. On Sellen, see José Lezama Lima, Antología de la poesía cubana, III, 309-15. The online CCPBE locates only a single copy, at the Real Academia Española, Madrid. Not located in Rebiun. Not located in Jisc. NUC: MH, NN. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 25792
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