Includes first published English translation of Mallarme's Un Coup de Des by Daisy Aldan. The Sackner Archive also holds the separately issued hard cover book of Aldan's translation, the Cosmopolis version of 1897 and the 1914 version published after Mallarme's death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackners purchased two Jack Hirschman manuscripts from this sale, Interchange and William Blake. The catalogue offered large number of manuscipts and letters by other writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This translation, authorized by Gallimard (publishers) and Mallarme's heirs as the first in English, was first published in Folder No.4, 1956, Tiber Press. This periodical is also held by the Sackner Archive. According to Aldan, each page of the poem forms an ideogram -- an image of whiteness of sky and ocean, storm waves,crests and troughs, male and female, wing and bird, sail and boat, etc. The four themes, UN COUP DE DES, JAMAIS, N'ABOLIRA, AND LE HASARD are equivalent to four movements of a symphony. They symbolize many phases of life and time, e.g., four divisions of a day, four seasons, four stages of total time, etc. and are an important part of the pattern that unifies the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.