Selected Writings of Paul Valery de Valery, Paul - 1964

New York: New Directions, 1964. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. First paperback edition. 256 p.p. Some damp staining and foxing to covers, bumping to spine ends, creasing to corners. A six cent U.S. postage stamp pasted to front hinge with Franklin D. Roosevelt's image, offsetting from stamp to facing page. Ink ownership inscription and stamp to first page. This selection from representative works of the great French poet-philosopher is based on the Paris Morceaux Choisis volume, which was assembled by Valery himself. It begins with poetry (French and English en face), then ranges through Valery's work in fields as various as architecture, logic, the dance, literature, philosophy, and painting.