Five Great Odes

Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Signed edition of one hundred copies only, numbered and signed by the translator. Our copy is signed but unnumbered and has the words “out of series” written on the limitation page by the translator (and poet in his own right), Edward Lucy-Smith. Underneath is a gift inscription by Lucy-Smith: “Tim and Tony, a parting present, Ted”. In fine unclipped dust jacket. *** First English translation of this seminal French poem.