Coup de Grace

Farrar, Strauss, and Cudahy, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed. Black cloth spine over black paper-covered boards, under Seymour Chwast dust jacket priced at $3.00, 8-1/4" x 5-1/4", 151 pp. Mild spine slant, tear to top joint corner of front panel of DJ, light wear. Very good in very good jacket. First printing stated.Inscribed by both Yourcenar and Frick: “To Mrs. Georgia Horner, this product of two pens. Marguerite and Grace.â€Yourcenar and Frick met in 1937 and were partners until Frick’s death in 1979. Frick translated other Yourcenar works, although the inscription here might imply more than translation? Yourcenar signatures are surprisingly uncommon, and a double-signature exceedingly so.