From Lorca’s Theatre: Five Plays of Federico Lorca.

LORCA, Federico García.

Item Number: 114062

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.

First edition of this collection of five of the internationally recognized poet and playwright’s plays. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by Richard L. O’Connell and James Graham L. Foreword by Stark Young. From the library of American actor Zachary Scott, the first husband of Elaine Scott who later married writer John Steinbeck. Scott is best remembered for his many roles as villains and “mystery men” in dozens of musical comedies, film noirs, and psychological thrillers throughout the 1940s and 50s including Hollywood Canteen, The Unfaithful, Shotgun, Man in the Shadow, and The Young One. In very good condition with Scott’s bookplate to the pastedown. Gift inscription to the front free endpaper.

Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director Federico García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting of mostly poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. The present volume contains The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife, The Love of Don Perlimplin, If Five Years Pass, Yerma, and Dona Rosita The Spinster.