PERSE, ST.-JOHN [ALEXIS SAINT-LÉGER.] Winds. French and English text translated by Hugh Chisolm. Printed in blue and black. 4to, black boards stamped in white and gold, foot of spine slightly bumped; dust jacket, scattered moderate rubbing, a few chips along folds and spine ends. Number 34 of the Bollingen Series. New York: Pantheon Books, 1953
first edition. inscribed and signed by perse to jean ballard in the year of publication. Ballard was a personal friend and publisher of the Marseille-based arts and literary review Les Cahiers du Sud, which ran from 1925 to Ballard's death in 1973. He was an important figure in the cultural scene and helped promote the careers of France's most celebrated writers and artists including Antonin Artaud, René Crevel, Michel Leiris, André Masson, and Henri Michaux. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960, St. John Perse was among the wave of French 20th-century poets whose work greatly expanded the depth and range of French literature during and after the war periods. He moved to America after being stripped of his French citizenship and diplomatic appointment after opposing the German regime in Vichy-governed France and wrote most of his important works there, including Winds, his last, which addresses the tumultuous conditions in the modern war era.
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