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The Literature of the Spanish People.: From Roman Times to the Present Day.
by BRENAN, Gerald
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,, 1951. First edition, first impression, a superb presentation copy from the author to his brother Hugh Blair Brenan and his wife Marjorie Rhoda Brenan, inscribed on the front free endpaper "to Blair and Rhoda from Gerald". An English bohemian on the peripheries of the Bloomsbury Group, Brenan lived in Spain from 1919 onwards, until he had to flee the country in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. From afar, he wrote numerous passionate accounts of the people, culture, and literature of the nation, writings which were acclaimed by academic and popular readers alike. The present book "is a work of persuasion, a vigorous personal account of Spanish literature from Roman times to the present day, a connected narrative, not a reference manual" (front flap). He was permitted to return to Spain in 1953, despite his opposition to the Franco regime, and with the publication of his works in Spanish following the end of Francoism, he has been highly esteemed by his adopted country. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine lightly sunned, minor peripheral bumping, a very good copy in good jacket, spine panel darkened and lightly rubbed, peripheral shelfwear reinforced on the verso, price-clipped.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 145824
- Title
- The Literature of the Spanish People.
- Author
- BRENAN, Gerald
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
- Date Published
- 1951
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Verso
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- Gilt
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