Chronique

First edition, hors commerce, printed in 100 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only printing with a few copies for the author, this one specially printed for Thomas Stearns Eliot.
Handsome autograph inscription from Saint-John Perse to his friend and U.S. translator, Allen (Tate) : " Pour vous, mon cher Allen, en bien vive et profonde admiration [for you, my dear Allen, with lively and profound admiration]".
Covers and spine slightly and marginally faded, two small insignificant tears to head and foot of spine.