FIRST EDITION of a comprehensive selection of poems by Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (1904-1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda , a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. TWO PAGES ARE MISSING IN THIS COPY. 220x145mm. 352 pages. Half-cloth rebound Hardcover. Cover and spine stained and rubbed. Cover corners/edges and spine edges/hinges rubbed. Spine wrinkled. Some pages corner creased. Dedication written in ink on title page (dated 11/6/1945). PAGES 17-18 MISSING! Pages browning. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare early edition of Neruda`s poems is otherwise in good condition.