Anabase.

Perse (Saint-John)

Anabase.

Seguita dalle traduzioni di T.S. Eliot e Giuseppe Ungaretti. Illustrata da Berrocal.

Description: ONE OF 23 LETTERED COPIES (this 'Z') from an edition of 122 copies, signed by the artist, printed on Pescia hand-made paper by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega, 9 colour-printed linocuts with 3 of these double-spread, title-page printed in black and blue, pp. 131, 4to, loose as issued in card wrappers, cloth and board chemise with Berrocal design and board slipcase (the latter carrying a few marks), the book itself near fine

Publication Details: Verona: La Rame, 1967

Notes: One of the most important modernist long poems - its significance enshrined by the eminence of its translators in the versions included here - in an edition illustrated with striking lino-cuts by the sculptor Berrocal, whose images convey the blend of the modern and the classical that is fundamental to the text.

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Price: £900

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1967

Stock Number: 59727

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