16mo. (9)pp. With drawings on pasted-in paper throughout, including portrait of Valdés (1809-1944). "Plácido" was Valdés's pseudonym, used by the time he was 16 to refer both to him and his poetry. He stood among his Caribbean and Latin American peers as among the first, most prolific, and most recognized romantic poets. He mainly lived in Matanzas, appropriate to Ediciones Vigía. In 1844, he and ten others were arrest by imperial Spanish officials on the grounds of conspiracy to incite a revolution (it would be another fifty years until the Cuban Revolution). While being led to execution, he recited the poem reprinted here, "Plegaría a Dios." Bound in plain paper wrappers with portrait of Valdés to upper cover. Light rubbing and stray soiling, else very good.