‘Quién Dirá Que Te Vio, Y En Qué Momento?’
CIRIA Y ESCALANTE, José de.
[Poemas.] Madrid, Artes de la illustración, 1924.
8vo, pp. [ii], 29, [3], with a photographic portrait plate; a very good copy in the original printed wrappers.
Scarce first edition, no. 172 of 200 copies, a collection of thirteen poems by Ciria y Escalante, who died from typhus at the age of twenty-one, brought posthumously to press by the author’s friends, among them Lorca and Buñuel.
Ciria y Escalante (1903–1924) had published only in periodicals or collaborative ventures during his lifetime, and his small but important oeuvre – here described as the work of ‘an enlightened mind, a delicate hand, and a generous heart, now lost forever’ (trans.) – was assembled by some seventy-five friends and collaborators including both Lorca brothers, Azorín, Jiménez, Guillén, Azorín, Bergamín, Salinas, and the filmmaker Luis Buñuel. His tragic death was the occasion of one of Lorca’s most famous sonnets, with its striking opening: ‘Quién dirá que te vio, y en qué momento?’
OCLC shows two copies outside Spain (Carleton University, Ottawa, and University of Colorado); not in Library Hub.