MODERN GREEK POETRY [INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]

New York: Gaer Associates, 1949. 1st Edition. Original boards in Dust Jacket, 8vo, 320 pages. 16-word inscription by the author, thanking the recipient "for her help in ‘A Season in Hell. ' Rae Dalven, (1905 - 1992) was a Romaniot "Jewish-American translator and historian.... Known for her translations of Greek poetry, such as, Modern Greek Poetry (1949) ... She also wrote two plays, A Season in Hell, which concerned the lives of the French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine, was successfully produced for the stage (1950) and Our Kind of People (1991) , an autobiographical production concerning a family of Jewish-Greek immigrants. Dalven's especial [sic] interest was in the history of the Jews in Greece, particularly the northern Ioannina community, who traced their ancestry to the ancient Palestinians (c300 BC) and had retianed their own customs and religious liturgy. She edited the academic journal the Sephardic Scholar and served as president of the American Society of Sephardic Studies" (abitofhistory, 2018) . The present work is a comprehensive collection of all the most important Greek poets from 1751 to the 1940s. Mark Van Doren calls these English translations "natural and alive. " Boards and paper very good, wear and stains to jacket, with piece missing from spine, thus Very Good in Good- Jacket with repair. Rare with inscription (AC-4-34).