NMLP P-009647 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04
Desolación (Desolación: Poemas)
Gabriela Mistral · Instituto de las Españas en los Estados Unidos (New York) — Columbia University's Hispanic Institute · 1922
No significant book-club edition of Desolación exists in either Spanish or English — its collecting market is defined by the scarce 1922 New York first and the 1923 (and later) Nascimento Chilean editions, not club reprints. The trap here is not a book club but conflating editions: (1) mistaking the 1923 or a later Santiago (Nascimento) printing for the 1922 New York first; (2) treating the 2022 Columbia University Press centenary edition or modern Spanish reprints as early; and (3) assuming the 1971 Doris Dana bilingual Selected Poems is the first English rather than the 1957 Langston Hughes volume. Confirm the "Instituto de las Españas / New York / 1922" imprint (and Carranza & Co. printer) to secure the true first.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-009647 for "Desolación (Desolación: Poemas)" by Gabriela Mistral (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-009647, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).