Amers
Paris, Gallimard, (April 4) 1957.
1 vol. (190 x 260 mm), 187 p. and 1 [f.]. Bronze morocco with border, matching velvet goatskin panel on front cover decorated with a mosaic letter design composed of an interlace of letters in bronze box calf and varnished box calf with violet and green highlights, mosaic title on spine, velvet goatskin doublures and endleaves, edges gilt on the rough, original wrappers and spine preserved, matching chemise and slipcase (binding signed P.-L. Martin, 1965).
First edition.
One of 105 copies on vélin pur fil (no. 116).
One of 105 copies on vélin pur fil (no. 116).
Amers is Saint-John Perse’s great maritime poem — and his longest poem overall — published by Gallimard in 1957, three years before he received the Nobel Prize. The definitive text was preceded by several partial publications in periodicals, gathered and arranged over nearly ten years, and long matured between the United States and the Antilles. The collection brings together the essential motifs of his work: exile, momentum, the elemental powers, and the sea — the most frequent common noun in Saint-John Perse’s poetry, appearing, according to Van Rutten’s 1975 count, 541 times.
After Vents, Amers remains the poet’s major work.
A very fine copy, magnificently bound by Pierre-Lucien Martin.
#32627
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