Henri Michaux.
 
The Orion Press: 1963. Octavo. First edition. Blue boards with white and yellow lettering. Unclipped jacket has chipping to the ends of the spine and the bottom of the rear flap. Tape repair to the inside of the rear panel of the jacket. Book is near fine, jacket is very good.
 
"Among silent breakers, the tremors of the shining surface, in the swift flux and reflux martyrizing the patches of light, in the rendings of luminous loops and arcs, and lines, in the occultations and reappearances of dancing bursts of light being decomposed, recomposed, contracted, spread out, only to be re-distributed once more before me, with me, within me, drowned, and unendurably buffeted, my calm violated a thousand times by the tongues of infinity . . . ”