För levande och döda. Dikter

(Stockholm, Sweden): Bonniers, (1989). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Robert Bly and his wife on the front free endpaper: "For Robert and Ruth with love from Tomas." Below this inscription is a portrait of a man with the caption "I have not read this book . . ." Robert Bly, who translated Tranströmer's poems into English and was one of the Swedish Nobel Prize Laureate's closest literary friends, has annotated the title-page with a record of the poems he has translated; Bly has also annotated pages 10-11 and the table of contents at the rear of the book. Bly translated three of Tranströmer's books, including his first book under Bly's Seventies Press imprint. In 2001, Bonniers published the correspondence between Tranströmer and Bly, a twenty-six-year span of correspondence from 1965-1991. Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011. An important association copy, in very fine condition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. An important association copy, in very fine condition.