signed first edition
1988 · London
by Paz, Octavio; Peden, Margaret Sayers
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket.. First UK edition of Paz's rich literary portrait of the extraordinary seventeenth-century poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the society of New Spain that produced her — with warm inscription by translator Margaret Sayers Peden. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original dark red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (£27.50) black pictorial jacket. xii, 548 pages. Inscribed by Peden to title page: " For F— V—, / with a translator's thanks for your interest in this work, the conjunction of two monumental poets — / Petch Peden / January 1994." Jacket with touches of shelfwear. Book clean, tight. (Inventory #: 52947)