Anabasis. A Poem by St.-John Perse.

Third Edition, revised and corrected. Tall 8vo. 96pp. Burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Bi-lingual edition with facing French/English texts.

Book-length poem by French diplomat and 1960 Nobel Prize winner Alexis Léger – pen-name St.-John Perse – "Anabase" was first published in 1924. Eliot notes in the preface to this revised translation, originally published in 1930, that "[t]he alterations to the English text of this edition have been made by the author himself, and tend to make the translation more literal than in previous editions."

Uneven tanning to dustwrapper, minutely chipped to crown of spine, faint off-setting to front and rear flyleaves, else Fine.

A retelling of Xenophon's 4th century BC account, "Anabasis" ("An Ascent"), which recounts his adventures with the Greek army throughout the Persian Empire.

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