signed first edition
1964 · Garden City
by APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume (poetry); William Meredith (translation; foreword); Francis Steegmuller (introduction; notes)
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling and decoration stamped in gilt on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 242pp. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "For Alice and David Halliday with affection and esteem from their friend Guillaume / June 1976". Signed by translator, William Meredith, on title page. Light rubbing to board edges, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper, designed by Harry Ford, unclipped (priced $4.95), with trivial surface wear and rubbing to extremities, pencilled note to front flap, and 1" tape mend to tear at verso of lower rear panel; Very Good.
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