EDGAR ALLAN POE; Configuration critique, Lettres Modernes
signed first edition
1969 · Paris
by (RICHARD, Claude, ed)
Paris: Minard, 1969. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 253. Bound in paper wraps, a very good copy. Inscribed essayist Roy Bassle to Sonja Smith, wife of poet William Jay Smith: "Dear Sonja: | the publsihers sent me an extra copy of this collection | with my little essay in it, and you are my favorite French girl | so - | with affection | Roy" This is a collection of essays, translated into French on Poe by Bassler as well as Edmund Wilson, Richard Wilbur, Allen Tate, and others. (Inventory #: 58372)