Cuba libre : poems / by Nicolás Guillén ; translated from the Spanish by Langston Hughes and Ben Frederic Carruthers ; illustrated by Gar Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guillén, Nicolás, 1902-1989, author.

Contributor:

Gilbert, Gar, illustrator.

Carruthers, Ben F., translator.

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, translator.

Spingarn, Amy Einstein, 1883-1980, associated name, former owner.

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, associated name, inscriber.

Anderson & Ritchie, publisher.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Black people.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 98 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Anderson & Ritchie, 1948.

Notes:

"Cuba libre was designed and handset in Legend and Janson types and printed on old ivory linweave early American paper in a limited edition of 500 copies by Albert Yarrish, Caroline Anderson, and Joseph Simon. Presswork by Earl P. Myers December 1948"--Colophon.

Selections from the author's El son entero.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center PQ7389.G84 S56 1948 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from Pamela Charleston. Dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("Happy Holidays and all good wishes for the New Year to Amy Springarn, Sincerely, Langston New York, Xmas, 1948.") on front free endpaper recording the gift of this volume to Amy Einstein Spingarn from Langston Hughes at Christmas 1948 in New York. Left board and backstrip detached.

OCLC:

4111093