Jim Dine, Czeslaw Milosz

Limited-edition copy of Milosz's Swiat/The World signed by the author and artist Jim Dine.

• Czeslaw Milosz (Polish-American).
• Illustrated with a portrait of the poet in dry-point engraving with chine collé by Jim Dine (American).
• Introductory essay by Helen Vendler (American).
• San Francisco: Arion Press, 1989.
• 60 pages.
• Limited edition of 200 copies.
• The types are Monotype Ehrhardt and handset Janson, paper is Curtis Ruysdael with Intaglio printing by R. E. Townsend, Inc., Georgetown, Massachusetts.
• Bound in boards with a brown cloth spine and yellow handmade paper for the sides and with the original prospectus.

From the publisher, “Milosz, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote this sequence of poems in Warsaw in 1943, during the Nazi occupation, and it is considered among his greatest works. The English translation is his own. For the original Polish text, we ordered matrices to cast the special characters.”

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