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Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition in English. Penguin Modern European Poets series - Penguin Catalogue No. D127. ***First printing of the first edition in English, published as a paperback original (PBO) on 24th Sep 1970. Sándor Weöres translated by Edwin Morgan, Ferenc Juhász translated by David Wevill. ***Near fine in colour illustrated thin card covers, with the printed price of 25p on the back cover. The covers have some light edge wear and rubbing commensurate with age and handling, but no significant creases or tears. Page block edges clean. Spine clean and not browned, and with no reading creases. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions or annotations. Paper stock lightly tanned but pages clean. Spine tight. Covers bright. ***180mm x 108mm. 136 pages plus six-pages of publisher's adverts at the back of the book. ***'Right and left have done their worst in Hungary, forcing poets back into their private worlds. Writing - and often experimenting - in verse of great technical proficiency and range. Sándor Weöres uses primitive (and even invented) mythology to remind us of the far-off roots of our civilization. Nature and Hungarian folk-lore are very prominent in the prolific, passionate verses of Ferenc Juhász, a poet at odds with his time, who has nevertheless contributed to it some of its finest work.' ***'Penguin Modern European Poets is designed to present, in verse translations, the work of significant poets of this century for readers unfamiliar with the original languages. The series already includes Yevtushenko, Rilke, Apollinaire, Prévert, Quasimodo, a volume of Greek poets, Miroslav Holub, Zbigniew Herbert, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Günter Grass, Vasko Popa, Anna Akhmatova, and Eugenio Montale.' (Quotes taken from the back cover) ***A first printing of the true first edition, published as a paperback original, in its original card covers, in very nice condition. An uncommon title in the series. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Condition: Very Good. 8vo., pp.vii,229, black hardcover, gilt; a few light marks to boards, one small dent to front board, else very good indeed, in a vg unclipped dust-jacket with a few light surface scratches.