Collected Poems by Cummings E E, Signed (1 results)

First Typewriter edition, number 141 of 225 copies, here inscribed by the editor to Cummings's friend and French translator on the front free endpaper, "For D. Jon Grossman, who suggested I type out the poems. with thanks and much appreciation always, G. Firmage, December 1978". David Jonathan Grossman (1922-1990) had 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. By 1960 he had published his first translation, and in 1980 he was awarded the Prix Halperine-Kaminsky for his Cummings translations. Quarto. Original green half calf, spine lettered in gilt, hessian-covered sides, author's signature stamped in gilt on front cover, yellow endpapers, green top edge. Grossman's shelf label to front cover. Light marks to front cover, corners a little rubbed, splash marks to top edge, contents clean. A very good copy.