Parabole de l'inconnue

Published by Abud Fadil Press, Cairo, 1954

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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA

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Limited edition, one of 50 copies of 500 total. Decoration to title and prelims. [20] pp, printed in brown on "Registre Extra des Vosges" paper. Folio (351 x 247 mm). A very rare publication by a member of the Salamander Society, a collection of mostly English expatriate poets centered in Cairo during the Second World War. A presentation copy, inscribed "To A. Carvely / with every good wishes. / Raoul Parme. / Nov. 25th 1954." The so-called Cairo Poets active during the war years were comprised of two groups: the Personal Landscape group-led by Keith Douglass, Lawrence Durrell, Bernard Spencer, and Terrence Tiller, which maintained a distinctly literary bent-and the Salamander Society, which was founded by Keith Bullen and John Cromer and sought "to memorialize the soldier as amateur poet and oral historian" (Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II, p 17). Parme taught under Bullen at the Gezira Preparatory School, and had translated at least one of Bullen's poems into French for an issue of Oasis. The present work is exceedingly scarce: the only recorded institutional copy is at the American University in Cairo. This copy was inscribed by Parme to Andrew Carvely (1932-1997), a Middle-East specialist who would go on to form a significant T.E. Lawrence collection now at the John Hay Library, Brown University. Recent black paper wrappers, with mounted printed panel from original front wrapper. Some tape repairs to blank inner margins, small faint splash stain to front wrapper Decoration to title and prelims. [20] pp, printed in brown on "Registre Extra des Vosges" paper. Folio (351 x 247 mm) Limited edition, one of 50 copies of 500 total.…

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Title
Parabole de l'inconnue
Author
(SALAMANDER group) Parme, Raoul
Publisher
Abud Fadil Press, Cairo
Publication year
1954
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