Published by Siamese Banana Press, 1972
Seller: Mantooth Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good+. Light soiling to both wrappers with minor staining to bottom edge of lower wrapper. Small black dot on fore edge. First edition, first printing. Mimeographs in stapled wrappers. Signed by both Paul Auster and George Schneeman (illustrator), the only signed copy of this landmark publication we've seen as of this listing. A mimeographed collection of translations of poems by French Surrealist authors André Breton, Paul Éluard, René Char, Benjamin Péret, Tristan Tzara, Antonin Artaud, Philippe Soupault, Robert Desnos, Louis Aragon, and Hans Arp. The painter George Schneeman, who collaborated on books with numerous East Village poets, illustrated the upper wrapper and colophon. Quarto (8 1/2 x 11 in). Unpaginated. Siamese Banana Press: New York, 1972. Signed by Author(s).