Paris: Lettres Modernes, 1971. First printing. 117 pp., 5.25 x 7.25 inches. Sewn signatures in printed wrappers. Presents the previously unpublished "cinéma-drame" of the title, with a foreword by Clau de Tournadre, who established the text, and an essay on the work by Alain Virmaux.
Paris: Lettres Modernes, 1965. First printing. 157 pp., 5.75 x 7.5 inches. Sewn signatures in printed wrappers. Studies of Les Mameiles de Tirésias and L'Hérésiarque et Cie by various hands. Small tear to bottom edge of front cover, slight bump on foot of spine, otherwise very good, with top edges.....
Toronto: The Women's Press, 1988. First English language edition. Paperback. 163 pp., 8vo. Author's first book of essays, published as La Letter aerienne in 1985; here translated into English by Marlene Wildeman. Inscribed in French by the author. Light shelfwear and slight darkening to wrappers.
Montreal: Guernica Editions, 1986. First Edition in English. Paperback. 109 pp., 8vo. Volume 27 in the Essential Poets series. Translated by Barbara Godard. This copy warmly inscribed by the author (in French). Light shelfwear, otherwise very good.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 139 pp., tall 8vo. 1/550 copies, 500 of which were for sale. Five lines from one of the speeches (with the characters' names in the original Greek) have been written out as an inscription on the front endsheet, in an unknown hand. Faint.....
New York: Grove Press, 1967. First Edition in English. Stapled Wrappers. 88 pp. Evergreen Playscript No. 16. Translated from the Czech by Vera Blackwell. Very good in slightly scuffed and marked wrappers. Perhaps preceded by the U.K. edition published by Jonathan Cape in the same year. 8vo.
Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 2018. First English language edition. 151 pp., 6.5 x 7 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Translated from the French by Ann Cefola. New.
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Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1984. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, 124 pp. Signed by the poet. Wrappers lightly handled, top of fore-edge and top edges of a few pages lightly bumped.
London: Oxford University Press, 1963. First printing. Cloth. 8vo, 45 pp. Top edge dusty, pages tanned. Jacket sunned, lightly soiled and edgeworn.
Mexico City: Gato Negro Ediciones and UNAM, 2020. First printing. 455 pp., 6.75 x 9 inches. Sewn signatures glued into printed card covers. New. A fully bilingual anthology of sixty-eight poets, from many generations, contexts, and traditions, primarily from Mexico and the United States but also from various parts of.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. First U.S. edition. 579 pp., 8vo. With 67 black & white photographic illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Quarter-cloth and paper over boards in illustrated dust-jacket; faint toning to jacket flaps, otherwise as new.
