The Blood of Adonis Signed

by Adonis, Samuel Hazo, Ali Ahmed Said, trans

$650 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh, 1971. First Edition. Red cloth; dustjacket; 8vo. Uncommon cloth issue of the Syrian-born poet's first book published in the US. Signed by Adonis on the title page. Translated by Samuel Hazo. Adonis has long been on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize which only one Arabic writer the novelist Naguib Mahfouz has won. This copy very lightly rubbed and soiled,

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