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Anthologie de la poésie anglaise contemporaine / Poèmes choisis et présentés par G.A. Astre.

Accession number
PML 198074
Creator
Astre, Georges-Albert, 1913- compiler.
Published
Paris : L'Arche, [1949]
Credit line
Gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018.
Notes
Edition of 25 copies on Lafuma numbered 1 to 25; 2,900 copies on Vergé des papeteries de Navarre numbered 26 to 2,925; 6 nominative copies on the same paper; and 100 copies hors commerce, marked H.C.
Library's copy marked H.C.
Description
252 pages ; 20 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Presentation inscription on front flyleaf: Pour André Breton / sans lequel certaines de ces poèmes, / probablement, ne seraient point / en hommage de / Georges Albert Astre / Paris / 14/12/49.
Provenance
Inscribed by Astre to André Breton (his sale, CalmelsCohen 18 April 2003, lot 481); the Sean and Mary Kelly Collection.
Binding
Pictorial cream wrappers, printed in black and red, with a cover illustration by Denyse de Bravura.
Classification
Department