London: Faber, 1985

8vo, pp. 199. Original dark blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper.

First edition of this translation, INSCRIBED BY SPENDER TO NOEL ANNAN AND HIS FAMILY BENEATH HALF-TITLE: 'by Stephen Spender, with love to the Annans, Oct. 30 85'. Annan -- intelligence officer, biographer, academic and, from 1965 onwards, life peer -- was a close friend of Spender.

A fine copy, with an association to match.