Author: Spender, Stephen
Title: Ruins and Visions. Poems. Inscribed by Spender
Description: London, Faber & Faber, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Inscribed by Stephen Spender to his friend. "For Michel Courtois This souvenir of a happy evening with him, his wife, Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Maurice Saillet & Stephen Spender May 31 1945" Imagine how wonderful that evening must have been. A dinner party with the legendary Sylvia Beach founder of the original Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris, and famously published James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922 when no one else would. Her partner in both life and literature, Adrienne Monnier. And, Maurice Saillet who was a French writer, editor, and translator. He was close to both Monnier and Beach. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine with some rubbing and toning on the pages, in a very good +orange dustwrapper with some nicks and edgewear. Connolly, The Modern Movement, # 91. 8vo. 84 pp. A cornerstone title rarely found Inscribed. Near Fine with some toning./Very Good +.
Keywords: CONNOLLY, THE MODERN MOVEMENT, # 91. Association & Dedication Copies Electronic List TBCL
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Title: Ruins and Visions. Poems. Inscribed by Spender
Description: London, Faber & Faber, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Inscribed by Stephen Spender to his friend. "For Michel Courtois This souvenir of a happy evening with him, his wife, Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Maurice Saillet & Stephen Spender May 31 1945" Imagine how wonderful that evening must have been. A dinner party with the legendary Sylvia Beach founder of the original Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris, and famously published James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922 when no one else would. Her partner in both life and literature, Adrienne Monnier. And, Maurice Saillet who was a French writer, editor, and translator. He was close to both Monnier and Beach. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine with some rubbing and toning on the pages, in a very good +orange dustwrapper with some nicks and edgewear. Connolly, The Modern Movement, # 91. 8vo. 84 pp. A cornerstone title rarely found Inscribed. Near Fine with some toning./Very Good +.
Keywords: CONNOLLY, THE MODERN MOVEMENT, # 91. Association & Dedication Copies Electronic List TBCL
Price: US$ 1200.00 Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library
- Book number: 34040
- Book number: 34040
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