THE GAUCHO MARTIN FIERRO. Adapted from the Spanish and rendered into English verse

by Walter Owen by Jose Hernandez

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

Buenos Aires: Editorial Pampa, n.d. circa 1960 . Octavo, drawings by Alberto Guiraldes, bound in imitation green leather, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red. Facsimile reprint of the 1935 Shakespeare Head edition. Epic poem about cowboy life in Argentina. The translator, Walter Owen, was a member of the Inklings writer group in England, and wrote a witchcraft novel, MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN 1947 .

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