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Price: US$24.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library copy with usual markings. No dust jacket. Cover and edges shows minor shelf wear and minor tanning. Pages are clean and intact.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bibliographical note. The text is illustrated with four colour reproductions of Georges Braque's artwork. Brown coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Plaintext dustwrapper with blue and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. A bilingual edition  French and English  of a poem inspired by birds and four pieces of artwork by Georges Braque which were directly inspired by the poem, and, coincidentally some of the last artwork he ever created. Rubbing of the book edges along with some foxing spots to the lower edge. There is a very large faded piece to the top left-hand corner of the front panel  commensurate with loss of dustwrapper. Some fading to the lower book edges has also occurred. The top back strip edge has definitely been chewed by a dog  please see photograph. Some marks to the end pages and original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. The book has been printed on a yellow coloured stock. The dustwrapper has seen better days  please see photograph. Creasing of the top dustwrapper edges with handling marks and sunning also present. There is a 5 inch tear to the top left-hand corner of the front panel with associated creasing and another 3 inch tear arcing into the body of the dustwrapper. The front spine gutter has split for the last 7 1/2 inches. There is a 4 inch tear, with associated creasing, to the lower edge of the rear panel. First eition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: Landscape Octavo. [10], 3 - 71, [2] pages, Text is in French / English. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Georges Braque. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; French / English Language; Poetry. Inventory No: 0286519.
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
PERSE, ST.-John. Birds. Pantheon, New York, 1966.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With reproductions of four color etchings by Georges Braque. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. 71 pages of text in French and English. Thin oblong 4to, brown cloth, d.w., board slipcase. New York: Pantheon, (1966). First edition thus. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper and poor slipcase. Bollingen Series LXXXII.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Saint-John Perse. Birds. Pantheon Books, New York, 1966.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Paper dj; green clother boards, gilt lettering on spine. 71 pages 4 color plates. Text in English and French. Bollingen series: 82. Translation of: L'ordre des oiseaux./ English and French./ "Bibliographical note": pages 65-71. With reproductions of four original color etchings by Georges Braque. Translation by Robert Fitzgerald. VG/G, dj shows slight rubbing, slip case has tears and cracks , still intact. Pages clean and tight.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
PERSE, St.-John.. Birds.. Pantheon Books, New York., 1966.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition. Bollingen Series LXXXII. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Oblong quarto. pp [viii], 71. Four colour etchings by George Braque are reproduced. The original French text is present. A beautifully produced book. With the ownership inscription, on the front free endpaper, of the Finnish poet Rubio Lindroos.Fine in fine price-clipped dustwrapper, in publisher's very good slipcase a little cracked and rubbed at edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Book protected by shelf-worn slipcase.
Seller: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Description: pp. 71. Oblong 4to., measuring 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]. Publisher's original tan cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Four striking illustrated colour plates by noted French painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, Georges Braques, especially reproduced for this book. No detectable flaws: extremities and contents without blemish with firm, sound binding; fine and housed in original, price-clipped, dustjacket (now housed in protective mylar cover). Lacking the original slipcase. Near fine. Translation of: L'ordre des oiseaux. Text in English and French. When Georges Braque was preparing a series of etchings of birds to be published on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, it was learned that St.-John Perse had just completed a poem on the theme of birds. The poet agreed to permit the first publication in the limited edition L'Ordre des Oiseaux with twelve original etchings by Braque. The four reproduced in this book were inspired directly by the poem. Among his last works, these etchings mark a change from the static forms in Braque's earlier plates to a more dynamic conception. Perse on his part added to his text several pages of aesthetic meditation referring mainly to the metamorphic vision of the painter and to Braque's birds in general. Braque, who with Picasso created cubism and carried it to noble poetic heights, embodied in the four plates he created for Perse a generalized sense of power, flight, grace, and space. The poet moves in his text from a particular observation of the flight of birds to reflections on the significance of their movement through space and its impact on man's consciousness. He uses the birds of Braque by relating the process of changing form in flight to the changing form of an etching as the artist carries it through its several states. Robert Fitzgerald, poet and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, translated St.-John Perse's Chronique and three lyric plays by Paul Valery, published in Bollingen Series. Bilingual Edition [Bollingen Series LXXXII].
Seller: Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts, Toronto, ON, Canada