A sequence of twenty poems in Polish, translated into English by the poet, with an introduction by Helen Vendler and a portrait of the poet in dry-point engraving by Jim Dine Arion Press, 1989, 1989. Hardcover. Book Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition. This copy is SIGNED by Jim Dine and the author Czeslaw Milosz; Signed limited to 250 copies; a sequence of 20 poems in Polish, translated into English by the poet; introduction by Helen Vendler; a portrait of the poet in dry-point engraving by Jim Dine; the portrait by Dine is composite image based on studies he made of the author in 1984 when Milosz was poet in residence at Dartmouth; bound in quarter brown cloth and handmade paper-covered boards; 10-1/4x14in; 60 pages, composed in Monotype Erhardt with English and Polish text on facing pages. The chine-colle dry-point portrait engraving by Jim Dine faces his printed "Artist's Statement" under which he has signed his name in pencil. Text printed letterpress on all-rag paper at the Arion; an exquisite rendition of a cycle of poems originally composed in Warsaw in 1943, when the city was occupied by the Nazis. The author adopts a deceptively naive manner to 'describe the world as it should be seen by children as opposed to the world of horror I knew Publisher's prospectus laid in.