Price: £100
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: [1957]
Stock Number: 68618
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L'Arbre de la Nuit (Nightwood).
Traduit de l'Anglais par Pierre Leyris. Introduction de T.S. Eliot.
Description: FIRST FRENCH EDITION, the top corner of a few leaves dog-eared, pp. 199, [3], crown 8vo, original pale grey wrappers, small pressure-mark at foot of front, perforated 'S.P.' (Service de Presse) stamp to rear cover and last few leaves identifying this as an advance copy, original prospectus laid in, very goodPublication Details: Paris: Éditions du Seuil, [1957]
Notes: Inscribed by the translator on the half-title: 'Pour Maria Bernal Dort[?], qui a la chance d'habiter un accent si complexe, hommage de Pierre Leyris'. Leyris was the pre-eminent French translator of Eliot's work, and undertook his work with the co-operation of the author; Eliot's Introduction occupies pp. 11-16 here.
Bibliography: (Gallup D93)
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