Pablo Neruda. CIEN SONETOS DE AMOR. Santiago de Chile: privately printed, 1959. Limited edition, no. 72 of 250 numbered and signed copies with lithograph (of 300 total copies). In original black & red printed card wraps. Folio; unpaginated. Signed by the artist in green ink on front free endpaper. With a lithograph by Nemesio Antúnez, signed by the artist in pencil in the lower right corner. Dedication to Matilda Urrutia, who later became Neruda's third wife. Text in Spanish.

14 3/8 x 10 in.

The Dr. Joseph Grunwald Collection

From the collection of the Dr. Joseph Grunwald who was friends with Neruda while living in Chile in the mid 1950s.

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wrote Cien Sonetos de Amor, or One Hundred Love Sonnets, one of his best known works, in 1959. It is divided into four sections based on the times of day: mañana (morning), mediodía (midday), tarde (afternoon/evening), and noche (night). Neruda would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, just two years before his death.

Nemesio Antúnez was a Chilean painter best known for his murals.

Text block loose in wraps due to dried glue, wraps toned with marks, scuffs, areas of damp staining, a small area of grime on the front, some creasing at extremities, and a 1 1/4-in. tear, spine creased with wear at ends; interior with gutter cracking due to dried glue, pages with light toning and occasional crease, mark or grime, and staining at lower edge; all leaves unopened at top edge (with the exception of (2) leaves with associated chips and tears from being opened), pages generally extremely clean and unmarked.