EL ARCO Y LA LIRA: El Poema. La Revelacion. Poesia E Historia By Octavio Paz Mexico/Buenos Aires: Fondo De Cultura Economica, (1956). First edition, first printing. "Primera edicion, 1956" to the copyright page. Seccion de Lengua Y Estudios Literarios. Octavio Paz (1914-1998), the Nobel Prize winning poet, activist, political diplomat, and frequent Cornell, Cambridge, and Harvard Universities lecturer, continually blazed new trails with his writing, and associated with top literary figures such as Hemingway, Neruda, Fuentes, and more. In this early work Paz discusses writing, prose, and poetry together with an analysis of its sources, meanings, intentions, philosophies, history, etc. Age-toning to the spine and cover borders, nicks and rub-wear to the upper and lower front spine joint, else about very good in green stiff-card wraps with french-fold inner flaps, gold-tone illustration and black titles to the front cover, slightly rubbed black titles to the spine, a nice sewn binding with many upper page edges still fresh and uncut. Octavo; 288 pages; indexes. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!