Frontier poem
Cléry [France]: 2002. Edition limited to 30 copies (this is no. 30), 8vo, 8 bifolia laid loose in original decorative cream wrappers printed in red and black, paper label on spine; 6 color etchings by Claire Illouz; letterpress by Sergent-Fulbert on Johannot paper; publisher's box with map motif; fine. A poet and a journalist, Eugene Jolas was born in the United States in 1894 but lived and worked on both sides of the Atlantic (Strasbourg, Pittsburgh, Paris, New York, Aachen, etc.). During the 1920s he became a member of the group "L'Arc" in Strasbourg, and in 1927 founded the very influential literary magazine Transition and published Hemingway, Beckett, Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and many others. Item #44281
Price: $750.00
