ALFONSO X AND THE CANTIGAS DE SANTA MARIA: A Poetic Biography.

First edition, first printing. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and front panel, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm. There is a previous owner's name written neatly in ink to the upper left corner of the front free endpaper, and the same owners initials to the centre of the rear pastedown. The contents are otherwise clean throughout. In the fine, unclipped dustwrapper.

"In the 'Cantigas de Santa Maria', a collection of about four hundred poems written in Galician, Alfonso X, el Sabio, king of Castile-Leon, has left us a kind of poetic biography. This volume explicates the historical circumstances surrounding the stories that the king tells about himself and his kingdom." (from the jacket)