first edition Hardcover
1966 · (London)
by GRINDEA, Miron, edited by
(London): Adam Books / Curwen Press/ Distributed by Stanmore Press Ltd, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition thus, "Full Case edition." Octavo. viii, 200pp. Pictorial cloth reproducing drawings by Jean Cocteau. Top edge is lightly foxed, distributor Stanmore Press label affixed to the title page, a near fine copy in a very good lightly rubbed dust jacket with occasional foxing. A publisher's "Freak Copy" including 8 blank leaves in place of publisher's printed text due to printer's error (text otherwise complete.) Originally published in 1965, as an issue of the periodical *Adam*. Contains "Daniel Defoe" by James Joyce, "A Fairy Tale (as told to Bernard Shaw)" by Oscar Wilde, "Love's Preference" by Jorge Luis Borges; also prints the text of 46 letters by Katherine Mansfield [see Kirkpatrick I24]; and contributions by Anne Sexton, H. G. Wells, W. H. Auden, Robert Graves, and more. (Inventory #: 517023)