Diccionario Biográfico de Mujeres Argentinas.

Buenos Aires. 1972.

Quarto, (22.4 x15.6 cm / 8.81 x 6.14 in), 414 pp., (Includes 1sheet with a dedication, Half title and Title page). Full leather binding with golden titles, with its original covers, preserved in its cradle. Copy No. 1, in very good condition, which belonged to the engineer Gustavo Fillol Day, to whom it is dedicated by its author: "For the great bibliophile and friend."

Essential reference work, the first gender dictionary, with the biographies of the most prominent women in our country. To place the author of it in a historical context, let María Rosa Pugliese La Valle, teacher and historian, introduce her to us: “Lily has made school and sowed a seed of old results. She has allowed herself to be seduced and has transmitted that seduction to us through the history of her women. She has given him an aura of magic, without losing an iota of scientific rigor, exploring the feminine being from the vantage point of history, and she has done so with the language of an excellent writer. A teacher in her field, the paradox is that her tools come from her own harvest: from her readings, from her observation of reality, without ignoring the imprint that her husband, Jorge Newton, would mark on her. . (...) But even following the course of her husband, she builds her own world (...)”. (1)

Gustavo Fillol Day put together a huge library, especially gathering the number 1 copies of the numbered runs, an eccentricity that “fell in love” with so many bibliophiles when his library was dispersed into different sales.

Note:

1. María Rosa Pugliese La Valle: Prólogo de la obra de Lily Sosa de Newton, Las argentinas y su historia. Buenos Aires, Feminaria editora, 2007, p. 7.

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