LEZAMA LIMA (José). La cantidad hechizada. La Habana, UNEAC - Lot 184

LEZAMA LIMA (José). La cantidad hechizada. La Habana, UNEAC (Contemporáneos), 1970. In-8, 457 p., navy blue half-maroquin with stripes, smooth spine, author, title and date gilt, gilt head, cover and spine preserved, matching slipcase [J. P. Miguet] (spine faded). First collective edition of these essays by Cuban novelist J. Lezama Lima (1910-1976). A fine, well-bound copy, with an autograph dispatch signed by the author and dated 1970, to Robert Altmann (1915-2017), an avant-garde publisher who founded the Brunidor publishing house in New York in 1947, and an art collector who spent part of his life in Cuba. There are 2 handwritten corrections by the author on pp. 185 and 294.