Memorias del Marques de Bradomin

Madrid: Editorial Plenitud, 1957. Small octavo in full red leather with stamped and gilt-ornamented spine and edges; frontis; bookmark ribbon bound in 629 pages: illustrations; 17 cm. India paper. Original publisher's insert for the book laid in. Extermities faintly sunned; else very fine. No jacket (as issued). Hardcover.

In Spanish. Beautifully bound in soft polished leather. Ejemplar 3,789 of 5,000. A tetralogy of novellas—Sonata de Otoño, Sonata de Estío, Sonata de Primavera, and Sonata de Invierno—narrated by the decadent, ironic Don Juan figure of Bradomín, who calls himself “ugly, Catholic, and sentimental.” Set across various romantic locales from Galicia to Mexico, the works blend Symbolist prose with fin-de-siècle aestheticism, offering a lush, ironic reflection on love, memory, and decline. A landmark of Spanish Modernismo. The four volumes—XIV, Rosarito (1902), Sonata de Estío (1903), Sonata de Otoño (1902), and Sonata de Invierno (1905)—are each set in a different season and geographical location, from Mexico to Galicia and Italy. Each explores themes of eroticism, memory, nostalgia, and decay, often through lush, musical prose influenced by French Symbolism and Spanish Modernismo