first edition Hardcover
1989 · San Francisco
by Milosz, Czeslaw
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1989. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated cream boards and brown cloth spine. Near fine. Dine, Jim. 57 pages. 36 x 26 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 copies, and a portrait of the poet, an original dry-point engraving by Jim Dine signed by Dine on the "Artist's Statement" describing his meeting with the author. Also, signed in pencil by Milosz on half title. A sequence of twenty poems in Polish, translated into English by the poet, with an introduction by Helen Vendler. Laid-in, the original announcement of this publication, plus a publication list of Arion Press books for the Fall 1989, most are french-leaved. A few marks to boards. (Inventory #: 20890)