C. A. Trypanis — The Glass Adonis
New York, Chilmark Press, 1972 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first US edition of this collection of poems from Greek literary critic, translator and classicist C. A. Trypanis. The first US edition, first printing, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Signed by the author to a front blank with the inscription 'To Eric with all good wishes from Constantine, Chicago 23.II.74&apos. A collection of nineteen short poems from the Greek literary figure, including the poems previously published in his 1967 limited edition collection 'The Elegies of a Glass Adonis', alongside further poems. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. A touch of sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with light handling marks and minor area of offsetting to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.
