Halcón, Manuel

Aventuras de Juan Lucas, Novela (inscribed copy, 1944)

Madrid: Sociedad General Espanola de Libreria, sucesores de Rivadeneyra, S. A., 1944. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1944, inscribed by author in early 1945 to Philip Bonsal. Full calf, very good but some wear and crude gluing to outer joints, contents very good. The author was a fairly well known Spanish novelist, poet, journalist and essayist, whose literary star descended with his embrace of Francoist politics. The recipient, Bonsal, was an AT&T executive in Europe, fluent in Spanish, who later became a lifelong diplomatl, US ambassador to a number of South American countries and last ambassador (1959) to Cuba. Good. Item #H3338

Price: $50.00