Maldoror : Lautremont , Lykiard 1972 [ English , First US Edition ]
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First US Annotated English Edition of the French Proto-Surrealist Classic The Songs of Maldoror by Isidore Ducasse, The Comte De Lautremont, Translated by Alexis Lykiard
Lykiard, Alexis, trans. Ducasse, Isidore. Lautremont’s Maldoror. Thomas Y Crowell. New York. 1972. First American Edition.
First US edition of first complete annotated English edition of The Song of Maldoror, the dark, decadent, proto-surrealist French classic, written by Isidore Ducasse as “The Comte de Lautremont” in 1874. In addition to his translation of Maldoror and Lautremont’s Complete Works, Lykiard, a poet and novelist, is also well regarded for his translations of other radical French writers of the turn of the 20th century, including decadent Ubu Roi author Alfred Jarry as well as the Surrealist poet and artist Guillaume Apollonaire,
218pp. Octavo. Beige cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Toning to top board edges. Pages toned but clean. Original M.C. Escher illustrated dust jacket, toned, with minor tears and some losses to edges. Very good in very good.
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