South America.- Neruda (Pablo) Canto General, one of 500 copies signed by Neruda and the two other contributors Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros, printed in red and black on Malinche paper, list of subscribers at end, colour pictorial endpapers, hinges split, uncut in original green cloth with gilt vignette on upper cover and lettering on spine, bumped and soiled, remains of dust-jacket loosely inserted, folio, Mexico City, Miguel Prieto, 1950.

⁂ One of Neruda's most important works. The subscribers list includes Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Paul Éluard, Louis Aragon, Luis Bunuel, Paul Robeson and Nancy Cunard. This variant green cloth would appear to be more uncommon than the red cloth in which most copies traced at auction are bound.