B70.3 ADÁN DESNUDO [1968]

[two lines flush left:] ADÁN | DESNUDO | [remainder centred:] UN POEMA | DE | SALVADOR NOVO | Y SU TRADUCCION AL INGLES | POR | ROBERT GRAVES | Y | LAURA VILLASEÑOR | 1969 | EN MEXICO

Collation: Two cream cards folded once, 4 leaves.

p.[1] title-page; p. [2] [at top:] [black-and-white photo of man walking barefooted on the parapet of a roof] | [two lines flush right:] Foto de Jack Manning | The New York Times | [facsimile of Salvador Novo’s holographic New Year’s greeting for 1969, in Spanish]; pp. [3-4] text of poem in Spanish; pp. [5- 6] NAKED ADAM | Translated by | Robert Graves and Laura Villaseñor | text of poem in English; p.[7] text of poem in English | [drawing of man in loincloth]; p.[8] blank.

28.5 × 19.3 cm. Bulk: 0.1 cm. Cream wove paper; all edges trimmed; not bound.

Price: Not for sale. Issued as a New Year’s greeting for 1969. Number of copies unknown. Published c. December 1968.

Note: Graves’s contribution, with Laura Villaseñor, is the translation of the poem into English with the title, ‘Naked Adam’.