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. In-12 carré br. Coll. " Poètes d'aujourd'hui ". Oeuvres choisies, traduites et présentées par D. Jon grossman. bibliographie, portraits et documents. E.O. sur papier d'édition.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his translator and his wife on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed for Anne-Marie and Don Jon Grossman (with good wishes) by E. E. Cummings, October 27 1960". The collection was dedicated to both Marion Morehouse and Anne-Marie Tschann. David Jonathan Grossman (1922-1990) first met Cummings whilst attending Peter Monro Jack's course at Columbia night school in 1941-42. After serving in the Second World War, Grossman attended Harvard in 1946 and began writing a thesis on Cummings, which he never finished. According to Grossman this was the start of their correspondence proper. In 1947 he moved to Paris but maintained the friendship; throughout the following years he wrote to or visited Cummings in the US. En Traduction was Grossman's first published translation, and in 1980 he was awarded the Prix Halperine-Kaminsky for his works on Cummings. Firmage D3a. Octavo. Original green and white illustrated boards. With dust jacket. Grossman's shelf label to jacket front panel. Spots of wear to spine ends, minor rubbing and bumps to edges; jacket unclipped, a few small chips and short closed tears, a little rubbed: a very good copy in like jacket.