Enormous Room by Cummings E E: Signed (9 results)

Original Cloth. Third Impression. Inscribed: "Patricia Reis/E.E. Cummings." Spine worn at ends, torn along edges and elsewhere; cover corners worn; pencil note re autograph on front flyleaf. Binding poor; text tight and clean. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Originally published in 1922 by Boni & Liveright, this is a reprint in the publishers' Travellers Library series from 1930. The book is Fine in dark blue smooth cloth, spine gilt, in a Very Good brown dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with spine toning, wear to points, and split to front spinefold. 286pp. This copy is INSCRIBED "for Uncle John with much affection from E.E. Cummings" at the top of the free front endpaper. This reprint edition is uncommon, and this copy is probably unique in being inscribed by EEC. Q14464.…

Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, first state with the unexpurgated "shit" on p.219. Signed by E.E. Cummings on the front flyleaf. Octavo: 271 p. Original tan cloth binding, with black titles. A fine copy in the scarce dust jacket which has been reinforced with archival silk on the verso, with some expert restoration to the very top of the front fold. Firmage A2a. The poet's first separately published book: the account of his wartime incarceration by the French. An auspicious debut, and one of the lasting books to come out of the Great War. Much admired by many of Cummings' contemporaries, including T.E. Lawrence, who called it "one of the very best of the war books" and actively worked to promote its English publication. Signed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition First State. 271pp. Tan buckram. Black lettering on the spine. Author signature in black ink on the front free endpaper. Offsetting to the front and rear endpapers, otherwise a near fine, unmarked copy. (The word "shit" is present on page 219, indicating a first edition, first state. The pictorial dust jacket front panel is present with significant chips along the extremities. 1/4 of the jacket spine is there, the flaps are present (one side of the front flap is taped to the front pastedown, the rear flap is detached from the rear panel, which has 2" chip on the upper edge. in mylar sleeve. Size: Octavo. Signed by the Author on the Verso of the Title. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First USA printing published by Boni & Liveright, New York in 1922. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. The first state with the word 'shit' uncancelled on p. 219 and original publisher's tan buckram. Mild offsetting of the wrapper flaps to the blank end papers. Light toning to the text block but the pages remain clean. Frederick Baldwin Adams Jnr.'s bookplate (designed by Rockwell Kent) to the front pastedown (Adams Jnr. had been a former President of the Morgan Library and had served also as President of the 'Association Internationale de Bibliophile', the most prestigious organisation of bibliophiles in the world). The original WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ condition. It is the correct first issue bearing the price of $2 to the spine and the 'Of Vocations' title description on the rear cover is priced at $2. The wrapper is notoriously fragile and brittle and this wrapper has benefitted from some expert professional Japanese tissue repairs to the verso which do not show through to the front. Some loss to the spine ends, corners and a little to the upper edges - see images. The wrapper looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been signed (without dedication) by the author to the upper front blank end-paper. Kennedy, Cummings' biographer, says less than 2,000 copies of this debut title were published. Very scarce with no records of a copy with such attributes appearing at auction in the last 15years. Cummings' first separately published book and one of the lasting accounts to come out of WW1. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Later Edition. Rare later ed of his first book (initial appearance was 1922) about EE experiences in WW One. A sensation for a book debut. Signed in ink on title page EE Cs. Very good in a good plus dj under bro dart. Rare to find a late Room signed. E E Cummings (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Second printing of the author's first book, inscribed by him to his friend and New York Times critic Peter Monro Jack on the front free endpaper "Same day, a latedition [sic], Cummings". Underneath the author's note is the ownership inscription of Cummings's French translator, David Jonathan Grossman (1922-1990): "now in possesion of D. Jon Grossman". He has also pencilled, "From the library of the late P. M. Jack, Critic" on the front pastedown. Cummings wrote the eulogistic poem "we miss you, jack" for the critic, which appears as number 7 in Xaipe (1950): "a 3ringbrain you had and a circusheart, and we miss them more than any bright word may cry". Jack (c.1897-1944) introduced Grossman to Cummings while the aspiring writer was attending Jack's course at Columbia night school in 1941-42. By 1960, Grossman had published his first Cummings translation, and in 1980 he was awarded the Prix Halperine-Kaminsky for his works. The Enormous Room was first published in 1922. Firmage A2a. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, fore and lower edges uncut. Grossman's shelf label on front cover, sporadic pencil marks to contents. Spine browned, covers rubbed with a few spots of wear, light marks to cloth, a few leaves roughly opened. A very good copy.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Liveright, 1950. Later Edition. Octavo (21cm); 271pp. Publisher's dust jacket with $5.00 price intact; boards half-bound in navy and light blue cloth with red stamping to front panel and silver stamping to spine. Dust jacket faded; bumped at spine ends and corners; flaps and verso foxed. Boards bumped; and faded along edges. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets toned with a few instances of foxing; interior pages remain clean. A Very Good copy. Signed by the author on the full title page. Cummings' first book is an autobiographical account of his temporary imprisonment while serving in World War I. Originally published in 1922. …

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing, first issue with expletive 'shit' not censored at the bottom of page 219. Signed by E. E. Cummings on the front free endpaper. From the library of author Larry McMurtry with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Bound in publisher's original ochre cloth stamped in black. Very Good with light soiling to cloth, light worming to top of textblock edge, pages tanned. Signed.…