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ORIGINAL EDITION IN ENGLISH.
Translated by Richard Howard, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry the year before publication.

A limited number of copies of this non-commercial edition were published for Christmas 1970. and precedes the publication in volume in The Collected Works by Princeton University.

SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CONSIGNMENT  to his doctor:

"For Christian Jean
thoughts always close and faithful
St John Perse
"Les Vigneaux
Giens peninsula
1972"

Saint-John Perse: A Bibliography for Students of His Poetry : Supplement No. 1 Ad39/1B