Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition by Dana, Doris, translated and Edited By - 1971

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. (USA) Presumed 1st edition. Owner's name to end paper, some colour shifting to the spine and to the upper part of the back cover, perhaps from sun, a touch of rubbing to lower fron cover corner tip, Very Good (-). Wraps, xxix, 235pp, index of themes. B&W woodcuts by the Uruguayan artist Antonio Frasconi. This is bilingual edition with Spanish on one page and the English translation on the facing page. Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. In 1945 she became the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world". (2.2 JM FO 33/1. 1st. Paperback. Very Good (-). Illus. by Frasconi, Antonio. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".