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LOST BODY / CORPS PERDU.
by Cesaire, Aime; Pablo Picasso, illustrator
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps (some sunning to bottom edge of front cover).
- ISBN 10
- 0807611484
- ISBN 13
- 9780807611487
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: George Braziller,, (1986). First edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps (some sunning to bottom edge of front cover).. First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. The first trade edition of this collection of 10 intertwined surrealistic poems by this Carribean poet, one of the foremost advocates of negritude, illustrated with spare drawings by Picasso, originally published in a limited edition of only 219 copies in 1950. Introduction and translation by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith. Bi-lingual edition with the complete original French text at the end. 130 pp plus colophon.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88345
- Title
- LOST BODY / CORPS PERDU.
- Author
- Cesaire, Aime; Pablo Picasso, illustrator
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps (some sunning to bottom edge of front cover).
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0807611484
- ISBN 13
- 9780807611487
- Publisher
- George Braziller,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1986)
- Keywords
- poetry, literature in translation, martinique, pablo picasso, negritude, surrealism, bi-lingual edition,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Caribbean literature and history;
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