Alejandro Obregon Illus (1 results)

Condition: Very Good. Barranquilla, Colombia: Editorial ACO, [1972]. First Edition, Limited to 999 copies of which this is no. 938. Large slim folio (34cm.); publisher's white and yellow pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; 76pp.; color illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit soiled and rubbed along margins, brief foxing to upper cover, old strip of tape to title page, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Signed and inscribed "Por Alvaro / Obregon." Brilliant collaboration between the Colombian artist Alejandro Obregon and the Colombian author and journalist Alvaro Cepeda, issued the last year of the author's short life (Cepeda died of lymphatic cancer in October, 1972, at the age of 46). His final collection of short stories and poems is here enhanced by Obregon's illustrations, many full-page, all printed in bright primary colors.