Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first paperback edition, early printing of Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca. First Paperback Edition described, 1955 New Directions. Eleventh Printing stated with 47-11626 LOC number on the copyright page and a $1.75 cover price.
The exterior of the paperback edition is in Very Good condition, with clean, lightly rubbed covers with no creases, a strong binding with multiple spine cracks, lightly foxed page blocks, no spine tilt, bumped bottom spine end, mild edge wear and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Very Good condition with no marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership inside. The inside covers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an inescapable tragic end. Yerma. “The whole tragic burden of Yerma is measured by the deepening of her struggle with the problem of frustrated motherhood.” ―From García Lorca, by Edwin Honig. The House of Bernarda Alba. Again about “women whom love moves to tragedy,” Bernarda Alba tells of the repression of five daughters by a domineering mother, of how their natural spirits circumvent her but bring violence and death.
Small Paperback volume with three plays ships promptly in a manila envelope with the book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
