Three Tragedies

Federico García Lorca. III [Three] Tragedies of Federico García Lorca. Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba. [New York]: New Directions, [1947]. First U. S. edition. Octavo (8 x 5.375 inches; 202 x 135 mm.). [6], 378 pages. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; top edge of the text block stained black, others trimmed; plain endpapers; in the original dust jacket, priced $3.75. Front board very slightly splayed; crown softly pushed; top corner of the front board barely bent; extremities very lightly rubbed. Top stain very faintly faded with a singly tiny splash; some trivial wear along the fore-edge of the last few leaves; endpapers lightly tanned. Dust jacket edges worn with some shallow chipping (all less than one-half of one inch) to the crown and adjacent panels (not affecting any text); two interior holes on the rear flap fold; spine panel faintly dulled. Very good. Translated by Richard L. O'Connell and James Graham-Luján with an introduction by Francisco Garcí