B68.2 POEMS OF ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS [1968]

THE POEMS | of | ST. JOHN | OF THE CROSS | ORIGINAL SPANISH TEXTS | AND | English versions newly revised and rewritten | by | John Frederick Nims | With an essay A Lo Divino by Robert Graves | Grove Press, Inc. New York

Collation: [1] –[4]l6 [5]4[6]l6, 84 leaves.

p.[i] THE POEMS | of | ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS ; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] copyright, LC card, edition, printing and manufacturing notices; p.[v] ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; p.[vi] blank; pp.[vii]–[viii] CONTENTS; pp.[ix]–[xv] A LO DIVINO; p.[xvi] blank; p.[1] section head; pp.2–151 text, with pp.[83, 97, 117] being section heads and pp.[82, 96, 116, 118] being blank; p.[152] blank.

20.2 × 13.3 cm. Bulk: 1.3/1.9 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in dark blue cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold, down spine: The Poems of St. John of the Cross John Frederick Nims [remainder upright:] Grove | Press

Price: $5.00. Number of copies unknown. Published 26 February 1968 in white dust-jacket printed in black, yellow and blue.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is ‘A Lo Divino’ (pp.[ix] – [xv]).

The book was published simultaneously in paper covers in the publisher’s Evergreen Book series (E-440) at $1.95.