[Rarebooks] FS: Leger (St.-John Perse). Collected poems

[Nina W. Matheson]

 From our recent New Arrivals list:

  Leger, Alexis.   Collected poems [by] St.-John Perse [pseud] with 
translation by W.H. Auden, Hugh Chisholm, Denis Devlin, T.S. Eliot, Robert 
Fitzgerald, Wallace Fowlie, Richard Howard, Louise Varese.   [Princeton] 
Princeton University Press [1971]. Blue cloth. Fine in rubbed dust jacket 
worn at the edges. First edition. 682 pp. Bollingen series LXXXVII. 
Copyright page states: "All the translations have been revised for this 
collected edition and have been approved by the author", Nobel laureate and 
poet-statesman. This is the first time the poems have been collected in a 
one-volume French/English edition.  $75.00


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