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1787006850Paris: Chez Cuchet Libraire 1787. Second French Edition. Full Calf. Near Fine. 8vo. xxxii 478 2 438 6 592 1 pp. With five large folding maps. Two copper engraved plates in first volume. The translation was dedicated by Crevecoeur to de Lafayette. Full contemporary calf. Gilt ruling raised bands. Marbled edges. Contemporary marbled endpapers. Light wear to the binding which remains highly attractive. Chez Cuchet Libraire unknown
1962523703Paris: Au Vent D'Arles 1962. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Hors commerce issue limited to 155 copies. Quarto. 37pp. Tan printed wrappers. Covers are slightly toned with very faint foxing else a near fine unopened copy. An elusive title in this 1962 edition published by Au Vent D'Arles and issued with the text sheets only reserved for distribution hors commerce by St. John Perse Georges Braque and Janine Cremieux. OCLC locates 11 copies; six in the U.S. The Getty copy in their description states: "No etchings accompany this ed." Oiseaux was also separately published along with etchings by Georges Braque under the title L'Ordre des Oiseaux 1963.<br /> <br /> This is one of a few copies reserved for Saint-John Perse not numbered and designated in type on the colophon leaf: "Exemplaire Saint-John Perse" and Signed by St-John Perse in ink on the limitation page. This copy is also Inscribed by St.-John Perse to Lincoln Kirstein on the front flyleaf: "A Lincoln Kirstein pour qui la vie est creation. Amicalement St-John Perse Washington 1963." Kirstein started the influential little magazine Hound and Horn while still a Harvard student and cofounded the New York City Ballet with George Balanchine in 1946. His sister Mina Kirstein Curtiss fluent in French was a Smith College professor and she also translated and edited publications by French authors including Saint-John Perse with whom she had a close friendship. Au Vent D'Arles unknown
