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(Port-au-Prince), (Imprimerie Renelle), (1956). A small, hand-printed volume by this Haitian surrealist poet, with a cover illustration and frontispiece by Milo Rigaud. Signed by the author on the front cover, with an additional full page inscription by the author to poet Barbara Howes on the first blank, written in 1964. Stitching absent; staining to covers; a good copy in wrappers, held together with a wraparound band addressed to Howes in Magloire-Saint-Aude's hand. An excellent literary association: not only was Howes a well-respected poet in her own right, who was twice nominated for the National Book Award, she also was editor of From the Green Antilles: Writings of the Caribbean, one of the first collections to bring Caribbean writing to a mainstream American audience. [#018561] SOLD

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