MALLARMÉ, Stéphane (Roger Fry, translator)

Poems

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1951. Alvin Lustig (dust jacket). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 12mo. Pp. viii, 312. Introduction by Charles Mauron. Index of first lines. Gray cloth with red lettering stamped on spine. In the Alvin Lustig illustrated dust jacket, unclipped ($2.00). Leaves crisp and bright. Jacket a tad rubbed, spine a tad dulled. Please see photos. A well preserved copy. Near Fine / Very Good+. Item #5745

Issue number 28 in the New Classics Series. Roger Fry's translations and commentary by Mauron first published in 1936, with additional commentary and poems not translated by Fry.

With a subtle Lustig jacket illustration featuring geometric abstraction. Please see Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig by Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger, p. 27. As with the Henry James "Aspern/Europeans," one of the more elusive "New Classics" dust jackets. Dust jacket now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

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Price: $150.00