![[Item #86953] Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew [Inscribed to Nathaniel Tarn]. John FELSTINER.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/86953.jpg?auto=webp&v=1756163701)
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew [Inscribed to Nathaniel Tarn]
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); burnt orange paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dustjacket; xx,[3],4-344,[2]pp; illus. Pictorial bookplate of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) mounted to front pastedown. This copy is lengthily inscribed to him by the author on the half-title page: "Gladly inscribed in Tesuque on 16 March 1996 / for Nathaniel, after thirty years of prizing your company from afar! With warmest wishes and with hopes for the "human today and tomorrow" that Paul Celan hoped for...John Felstiner." Tarns' pervasive light pencil notes and markings appear throughout the margins of this book. A few tiny scuffs to front cover, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with some mild external wear. Scholarly biography of the German-speaking Romanian poet, translator, and Holocaust survivor. 86953.
Price: $100.00