Milosz, Czeslaw — The Collected Poems, 1931-1987

New York, Ecco Press, 1988. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Translated from the original Polish. The author was the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature. Photo of author at rear cover. The author was born in Lithuania in 1911 but raised up in Poland through its Occupation by the Nazis; he later served in the Polish diplomatic service in Washington and Paris. Interestingly, Milosz says that he was aided in the poems' translatability by two friends, Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky, "who do not know Polish" (p. xvi). xvi [1], 1-510 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine