[Rarebooks] FS: Rare Signed Seferis

[Allington Books]

*Offered*: *The King of Asine and Other Poems.  Signed Association Copy.
Quite Hard to Find.

Seferis, George [Seferiádēs, Geōrgios; Seferis, Giorgos]; Warner,
Rex[Introduction]; Durrell, Lawrence; Spencer, Bernard; Valaoritis, Nanos
[Translators]. The King of Asine and Other Poems [Signed Association Copy].
London: John Lehmann Ltd., 1948. First English language edition. A Very
Good or better copy of the First UK Edition, first printing (spine ends
gently pushed and lightly rubbed, tiny rubs at outer board corners, very
slightly askew with a bit of leftward lean, sunning to spine ends mirroring
dust jacket loss, modest mark to rear panel, modest foxing to endpapers),
in an about Very Good (for this title) dust jacket (loss at each spine end,
edges rubbed, foxing to rear panel and to the jacket's verso, interior tape
repairs to spine and to the head of each flap turn, excised sections at
bottom of each flap replaced, price present though lightly affected by a
blue pen stroke, short, tear at bottom of front flap fold --- the dust
jacket for this title is notoriously fragile), SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED
("Much -- or Many -- [Illegible] '49") BY GEORGE SEFERIS [IN GREEK] TO, REX
WARNER, his friend and frequent translator, who provided the book's
Introduction. Presenting representative selections of his Poetry, this book
constitutes the debut presentation of Seferis' work in English translation.
A Greek Diplomat and Ambassador to the UK, and one of the Twentieth
Century's most important Greek Poets, George Seferis won the 1963 Nobel
Prize in Literature for "his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep
feeling for the Hellenic world of culture", making him the first Greek ever
to have received the Prize. This copy belonged to Seferis' good friend, Rex
Warner, who provided the book's Introduction and who later translated some
of the verses contained in this work, as well as others not previously
published in English, for presentation in the "Poems", itself the second
translation of any of Seferis' works into English (1960).  Signed copies of
Seferis' works are extraordinarily scarce in any language, and our search
of the of the auction records shows no signed copies of his works coming to
auction in the last 55 years. Altogether a Very Good ASSOCIATION COPY of an
extremely difficult-to-find book from the first Greek author to win the
Nobel Prize in Literature. RARE. Very Good in Very Good (for this title)
dust-jacket. Hardcover. (#00003027)        $1,875.00
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