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Collection Nadir, 1983. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. En español y francés. Venice, Collection Nadir, 1983. 1ra edición. 12 x 19 cm, 73 pp. Leve curvatura de la esquina superior. Tapas algo deslucidas. Interior en excelente estado. The Book Cellar & Henschel.

Washington, D.C.: Pan American Union, 1967. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. 1. Square octavo. 116pp. Illustrated with small portraits of the poets. Poems in both Spanish and English. Printed wrappers over stapled text block. Wrappers with moderate soiling and wear, staples oxidized, very good. Features poets from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, and Uruguay. Each country has an introduction by a noted scholar, critic, or author (Chile introduced by José Donoso), and a brief biography is given for each poet. Over 50 poets are represented, including Octavio Paz, Alejandra Pizarnik, Nicanor Parra, and Enrique Lihn. *OCLC* seems to locate only two copies, one in the U.S. at the Organization of American States, formerly known as the Pan American Union, the publisher of this volume.

Buenos Aires : Acuarius Libros, 1971. 1ª ed. Rústica. 10.5x18.5. Huellas de óxido en el interior de la cubierta. El exterior de las cubiertas, y el interior del libro muy limpios. Buen ejemplar

Buenos Aires: Editorial Sur, 1962.. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (12 x 20 cm). pp.65. Original card wrappers printed in red and black. Mellowing to wrappers, small chip and tear to spine, generally a very good copy. The author's fourth collection of poems, which includes the poems "La última inocencia" (1956), "Las aventuras perdidas" (1958) and "Otros poemas" (1959) and a prologue by Octavio Paz. Alejandra Pizarnik, born Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972), was Argentine poet whose poems are known for their stifling sense of exile and rootlessness. Pizarnik was born into a family of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. She attended the University of Buenos Aires, where she studied philosophy and literature. Later she ventured into painting, studying with the Catalan Argentine painter Juan Batlle Planas. In 1960 she moved to Paris, where she worked for French publishing houses and magazines. She wrote the present collection of poems when she was 26 and living in Paris.

Buenos Aires: Siglo veintiuno editores, 1971.. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Small 4to. (18 x 15.5 cm). pp. 76. Original card wrappers printed in black and pink. With an inscription in purple ink by Pizarnik to prestigious literary critic Jorge Cruz to f.f.e.p. reading, "Jorge Cruz, en verdadera estima personal y literaria - Sasha Pizarnik" [Jorge Cruz, in true personal and literary esteem]. Light marginal toning, inner hinge a bit cracked, rubbing to spine. First edition, inscribed, of this book by Alejandra Pizarnik in which she makes an inquisition about language and its functions. It is dedicated to the prestigious literary critic Jorge Cruz, who developed a renowned career for more than four decades in the prestigious newspaper LA NACION, where he began as a theatre critic. In 1957 he joined the Literary Supplement. There he contributed to disseminate the work of prestigious writers and made new authors known. Alejandra Pizarnik, in full Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine poet whose poems are known for their stifling sense of exile and rootlessness. Pizarnik was born into a family of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. She attended the University of Buenos Aires, where she studied philosophy and literature. Later she ventured into painting, studying with the Catalan Argentine painter Juan Batlle Planas. In 1960 she moved to Paris, where she worked for French publishing houses and magazines, published poetry, and translated into Spanish works of such writers as Henri Michaux, Antonin Artaud, Marguerite Duras, and Yves Bonnefoy. In 1965 she returned to Buenos Aires and published three of her eight collections of poetry, Los trabajos y las noches (1965; "The Works and the Nights"), Extracción de la piedra de la locura (1968; "Extraction of the Stone of Madness [or Folly]"), and El infierno musical (1971; "The Musical Hell"), as well as her famous prose work La condesa sangrienta (1965; "The Bloody Countess"), about the Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory. Pizarnik s first editions with inscriptions are seldom found.