{"product_id":"2010-rare-first-edition-nox-by-canadian-poet-anne-carson-nobel-prize-2026","title":"2010 Rare First Edition - Nox by Canadian Poet Anne Carson, Nobel Prize 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA remarkable First Edition, First Printing of Nox by 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Anne Carson, an extraordinary accordion-fold artist’s book and deeply personal elegy created in memory of her brother.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: Anne Carson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTitle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2010. First Edition, First Printing, with no additional printings stated. Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited. Cover design by Rodrigo Corral, with Robert Currie assisting in the design and realization of the book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: Text in English, with passages in Latin and references to Ancient Greek.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: 9 x 6 inches.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: 192 pages, presented as a continuous accordion-fold construction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBinding\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: Near fine original publisher’s binding, with pale cloth spine lettered in grey and grey paper-covered boards, the front board incorporating a mounted photographic image over an irregular gold-coloured strip. Complete with the original matching grey publisher’s solander clamshell box, also in near fine condition, with only very minor signs of handling as shown.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eContent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: Near fine content, bright, clean and exceptionally well preserved. The extraordinary accordion-fold text incorporates facsimiles of family photographs, letters, handwritten fragments, dictionary entries, translations, collages and other personal ephemera, all reproduced from Carson’s original handmade book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIllustrations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: Profusely illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions, manuscripts, collages, typographical fragments and facsimile materials integral to the work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEstimate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: Scarce and increasingly desirable in the First Edition, First Printing, particularly complete with its original publisher’s solander box and in this condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of Anne Carson’s most remarkable works and one of the most distinctive contemporary examples of the book as an artistic object. Conceived as an epitaph for her brother, the work reproduces a handmade memorial book Carson assembled after his death. Rather than following a conventional sequence of pages, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e consists of one continuous sheet folded accordion-style and housed within a substantial solander box.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt its centre is Carson’s attempt to translate Catullus’s Poem 101, the Roman poet’s elegy for his own dead brother. Individual Latin words become points of departure for dictionary definitions, recollections, photographs, letters and fragments of family history. The act of translation gradually becomes inseparable from the act of mourning, as Carson attempts to understand a brother whose life had largely remained distant and elusive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe result moves between poetry, classical scholarship, memoir, photography and collage. The physical construction of the book is inseparable from its meaning: it can be unfolded, extended, revisited and rearranged visually, mirroring the fragmentary nature of memory itself. New Directions describes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as an epitaph in book form and a facsimile of the handmade work Carson created after her brother’s death. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: Anne Carson (born 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and classicist, and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewinner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Her work is celebrated for dissolving conventional boundaries between poetry, prose, criticism, translation, classical scholarship and visual art. Among her best-known books are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAutobiography of Red\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Beauty of the Husband\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGlass, Irony and God\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAntigonick\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWrong Norma\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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