Signed, Alfredo R Bufano - Laudes de Christo Rey - 1933

LAUDES DE CRISTO REY. Alfredo R Bufano. First Edition dedicated by the author to Mr. Matías Errázuriz. Drypoint engraving on the cover MARICEL.
L.H. POESÍA. FIRST EDITION. LITERATURE. Edited by Mercatali Brothers, Buenos Aires 1933. Binding in Holland cloth and custom boards with stamping on the cover of the previous owner, preserving the original cover, with a headband on the spine. Dedication and the author's signature to Matías Errázuriz on the title page. Manuscript text of the Spanish Falangist hymn, Cara al Sol, on the initial free pages of the binding under the title Hymn of Spain. On the later free leaves there is also handwritten the poem CANCIÓN by Juan Guzmán Cruchaga.
Cover in two colors. 111 pages. 20x15 cm. Solid and compact volume. Paper in good condition.
Dedication and handwritten signature of the author, dated San Rafael 1938, to Matías Errázuriz, Chilean consul in Buenos Aires and a recognized patron of the arts at the time (among other actions he ceded his Buenos Aires house for the foundation of the museum that still operates in the Argentine capital). In the binding plan the name MARICEL is stamped, the name of the great Chilean estate owned by the Errázuriz family, confirming its belonging to the library of that house.
About Bufano: '...in addition one can cite the recognition of his merits that meant his admission to the Argentine Academy of Letters in 1934, and his election in 1943 as President of the Argentine Society of Writers, Mendoza branch, and vice president of the institution in Buenos Aires. To this we can add one last fact: the posthumous tribute paid by such illustrious figures of Argentine culture as Jorge Luis Borges, Eduardo Mallea, Conrado Nalé Roxlo, Roberto P. Giusti, Vicente Barbieri, Ulises Petit de Murat or Manuel Mujica Lainez, who accompanied his remains to the Chacarita cemetery.'
Matías Errázuriz Ortúzar was a Chilean diplomat of great prominence in the early 20th century, known for his life in Europe and for collecting art, whose mansion in Buenos Aires, together with his wife Josefina Alvear, became the prestigious National Museum of Decorative Arts of Argentina after his death, preserving his legacy as an important cultural reference.