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Synopsis
Presents the French poet's meditations in prose on seashells and the questions raised by their forms
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Something about seashells attracts poets: Pablo Neruda kept a collection of them, as did William Wordsworth, C.P. Cavafy, and Walt Whitman; all wrote about the wonders of malacology. The French symbolist poet Paul Valéry (1871-1945) joins their number with this short yet graceful essay on these "privileged objects" that "present us with a strange union of ideas: order and fantasy, invention and necessity, law and exception." At turns he likens the forms of poetry to those of shells and the shell itself to poor Yorick's skull, which set Hamlet to wondering about matters of life and death. The noted American poet Mary Oliver provides an introduction. Henri Mondor's pencil illustrations are an added pleasure. --Gregory McNamee
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Mondor, Henri (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 101 pages; 1998 Beacon Press. HC 1st printing of this edition with foreword by Mary Oliver and drawings by Henri Mondor. Snugly bound and neat in cream quarter cloth backed spine and plum paper covered boards lettered in gilt with a b&w pictorial paper panel mounted to the cover board. Tiny remainder dot top edge. Stray pen strokle to the rear end page and just trace shelf evidence to extremities. VG++ to NF. Seller Inventory # 57378
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket as issued. Mondor, Henri (illustrator). First Edition. First printing with full number line. Minor wear & light soiling to boards & edges of text block. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Text and images unmarked. Seller Inventory # SELvalSEA
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Mondor, Henri (illustrator). First Edition. First thus. Beacon Press, 1998; First Printing with full number line; 101pp. VG- hardcover. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light wear to edges of boards, small faint stain spots on front board; very mild rubbing to stamped red titling on cloth spine, gilt titling on front board remains bright and bold; illustrations and text very good. No dust jacket, likely as issued. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seller Inventory # 319483
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Mondor, Henri (illustrator). first edition thus, 1998. translated from french by ralph manheim. illustrated by henri mondor. a meditation on the aesthetics of seashells with a forward by mary oliver. boston: beacon press. isbn: 0-8070-6430-0. 8.75 x 5.75". hardcover. bound in cloth covered boards. book condition: fine. Seller Inventory # 820
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Mondor, Henri (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. 101 pp. Near Fine. Subtlest shelfwear to boards. Faint sticker impression to rear board, previous owner's name inscribed to front free endpaper. Seller Inventory # v00047
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