4 Federico García Lorca first editions are documented on this shelf, from Primer romancero gitano (Romancero gitano / Gypsy Ballads) (1928) to Poeta en Nueva York (Poet in New York) (1940) across 4 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Federico García Lorca title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- Primer romancero gitano (Romancero gitano / Gypsy Ballads) — 1928 · Revista de Occidente, MadridTrue first: Revista de Occidente, Madrid, published June 1928; printed by Tipografía Nacional, San Marcos 4, Madrid. The title-page reads "Primer romancero gitano. 1924–1927". A small-format volume of 149 pages, approximately 17 cm, issued in the publisher's printed wrappers, uncut; the text collects 18 ballads written 1924–1927. The copyright line reads "COPYRIGHT BY REVISTA DE OCCIDENTE MADRID, 1928", with the…. The Spanish original is the true first and the only edition collected as such: Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1928. There is no competing UK/US edition of the period — Lorca had not yet appeared in English book form in 1928, so no precedence question arises. The census note that "English translations only from the late 1930s" is imprecise and is refined here: Lorca's first appearance in English book form was A. L.…. No book-club issue is documented. The live trap is facsimile reproduction: a modern facsimile of the 1928 Revista de Occidente first edition is in print from JdeJ Editores (ISBN 9788412232929) and reproduces the original wrapper and setting, so an apparently pristine "1928" copy in fresh wrappers warrants paper and binding examination. Later authorised editions dropped the qualifier "Primer" from the title, but….
- Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding) — 1936 · Ediciones del Árbol / revista Cruz y RayaFirst edition in book form, printed in Madrid for José Bergamín's review Cruz y Raya under its book imprint Ediciones del Árbol, in an edition of 1,100 copies — the limitation figure is the primary point and is corroborated across Spanish trade and institutional sources. Full title 'Bodas de sangre (Tragedia en tres actos y siete cuadros)'; 125 pp. + 1 leaf, small 4to, roughly 23 x 17 cm, issued in rústica…. No language-precedence contest: this is the Spanish original and the only first-edition candidate. It is the only one of Lorca's plays published in book form during his lifetime; the play premiered at the Teatro Beatriz, Madrid, on 8 March 1933, nearly three years before printing, so no earlier book-form 'first' can exist. English translations follow the Spanish original and hold no precedence. The play was…. No book-club edition. The reprint field is the real hazard: Guillermo de Torre's Losada (Buenos Aires) Obras completas texts and all modern Spanish trade editions (Alianza, Cátedra, Debolsillo and others) are reprints with no first-edition standing. Sources also record that a facsimile of the first edition is freely consultable in the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica — a facsimile is not a first, and its page images….
- Poet in New York — 1940 · W.W. Norton, New YorkThe first edition is The Poet in New York and Other Poems, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1940 — a bilingual volume (Spanish text with Rolfe Humphries' English translation), with a short introduction and biographical note, issued in a pictorial dust jacket. ABAA dealer consensus dates it several weeks ahead of the Spanish-only Poeta en Nueva York from José Bergamín's Editorial Séneca, Mexico City, 1940 (Norton…. Posthumous work with parallel 1940 firsts. Contrary to the 'priority famously disputed' framing, ABAA dealers (Burnside, Between the Covers, Raptis, Ken Lopez) agree the New York Norton edition is the true first and precedes the Mexico City Séneca edition — so the US bilingual edition precedes the original-language Spanish printing. Name both: Norton 1940 (first edition / first bilingual appearance) and Séneca….
- Poeta en Nueva York (Poet in New York) — 1940 · W. W. Norton & Company, New YorkCENSUS CLAIM CORRECTED — the Norton edition precedes the Séneca edition, not the reverse. Norton first edition (New York, published 24 May 1940), titled 'The Poet in New York and Other Poems': bilingual, with the Spanish text and Rolfe Humphries' English translation printed side by side, an introduction and a closing biographical note by Hershel Brickell; bound in the publisher's orange cloth with the spine…. Both editions are collected and a serious reference must name both. Norton, New York, is the true first by roughly three weeks — 24 May 1940 against the Séneca colophon of 15 June 1940 — a precedence confirmed both by the dated record and independently by ABAA dealer cataloguing, which describes the Norton as preceding the Mexican edition by several weeks. Séneca is the first edition in Spanish only, and the…. No book-club edition is documented for either 1940 edition. The main reprint hazard is the facsimile of the Norton bilingual edition issued by the Patronato Cultural Federico García Lorca, which reproduces the 1940 sheets and is not a first; later Séneca-imprint printings and all modern Spanish trade editions likewise carry no first-edition standing.
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