(Frankfurt): S. Fischer Verlag, 1959. First Edition. 8vo, 66pp; white cloth stamped in gilt on spine. A presentation copy, warmly inscribed by Celan on the first leaf: "Für Margareta und Hugo, in alter Freundschaft und mit den herzlichsten Grüssen und Wünschen, am 24 Jänner 1960, Paul." The recipients were the..... More
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, (1955). First Edition. 12mo, 65pp; black cloth stamped in gilt. Celan's third book, this copy has the neat ownership signature of the American poet Jerome Rothenberg who was Celan's first English-language translator. Rothenberg's 1959 book New Young German Poets was published in the City Lights Pocket Poets..... More