Auction 79 Pablo Neruda - A Unique Archive
Oct 8, 2020
Spain
 Carrer del Comte de Salvatierra, nº8, 08006 Barcelona (Spain)
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LOT 105:

Lot of galley proofs and Neruda, Pablo . "La Espada encendida". 1st edition. Buenos Aires. Published by Losada, 1970.


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Lot of galley proofs and Neruda, Pablo . "La Espada encendida". 1st edition. Buenos Aires. Published by Losada, 1970.

ograph is on a handwritten letter addressed to Rita Guibert. There are handwritten corrections in green ink on the handwritten text. Original typewritten text of La Espada Encendida.
There are more than eight hundred corrections and notes, and around 50 differences from the principal edition, including the last verses of the book which makes a great change to the moral of the work. Numbered by hand in green ink in Roman numerals. Different types of paper. The work is accompanied by a signed, handwritten letter with its respective postmarked envelope, from Neruda to Rita Guibert, editor and friend. Mailed from the Hotel du Quai Voltaire in Paris, exactly four months before the work was published in its first edition by Losada.
- Neruda, Pablo. La espada encendida. 1st edition. Buenos Aires. Published by Losada, 1970. 152 pages 23 x 16 cm.