THE DELETED WORLD

First edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author and the translator. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles and tree illustration onlay to the upper board. Complete with the original plain acetate dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt fresh. The contents, with a small pencil inscription from a previous owner to the rear pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout, and without stamps. A lovely example.

Issued in an edition of 35 copies, from which this example is numbered 28, and signed by the Tomas Tranströmer and the translator Robin Robertson in black ink on the half-title. Known in Sweden as "the buzzard poet" for his aerial view of the landscape and human behaviour, Tranströmer's autumnal poems have been carefully translated for this collection by the Scottish poet Robin Robertson to capture his "spare, almost cinematic style" (The Independent, 2006). Tranströmer (1931-2015) is acclaimed as one of the most significant Scandivanian writers since the Second World War, and is the recipient of numerous prestigious literary awards, including the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. This elegant collection was shortlisted for the Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for 'European Poetry Translation'.