“When now and then upon this planet she lets fall,
“Out of her idleness and sorrow, a secret tear,
“Some poet—an enemy of slumber, musing apart—“
A collection of 72 poems from the great nineteenth-century writer Charles Baudelaire. In each instance the French text is printed on the opposite page for ready comparison.
Author: George Dillon and Edna St. Vincent Millay
Title: Flowers of Evil from the French of Charles Baudelaire
Edition: Later printing
Published: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 282p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket with light edge wear and toning—in new protector. Boards and spine very clean with mild edge wear, bumping to corners, and crushing at spine ends. Binding solid and square. Pages toned. Owner’s name on front end-paper.
Comments: Very nice copy
