Miscellany by Cummings E E, First Edition (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 4.16 (illustrator). 1st Edition. A FIne, Collectible book. E.E. Cummings's A Miscellany, confined to a private edition for decades, sheds further light on the prodigious vision and imagination of the most inventive poet of the twentieth century: E.E. Cummings.Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E. E. Cummings's groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited run in 1958, Cummings lent his delightfully original voice to "a cluster of epigrams," a poem, three speeches from an unfinished play, and forty-nine essays?most of them previously written for or published in magazines, anthologies, or art gallery catalogues. Seven years later, George J. Firmage?editor of much of Cummings's work, including Complete Poems?broadened the scope of this delightfully eclectic collection, adding seven more poems and essays, and many of Cummings's unpublished line drawings. Together, these pieces paint a distinctive portrait of Cummings's eccentric, yet precise, genius.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1958 The Argophile Press stated first edition. Tight and unmarked no jacket. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DUST JACKET. First Edition. First Edition. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is verygood. Binding is tight/good. NO DUST JACKET.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. With B&W drawings, including a self-portrait as frontispiece (illustrator). First Edition" (softcover) stated. Sewn binding. Last date on copyright page is 1965 (Firmage's copyright). Spine is creased but holding. Pencil marks corner first (half-title) page, but no marks to text. Some marks and soil to edges. Pages toned. "Fair only" condition however mostly because the covers are much worn, and the back corners are bumped, with page-corners showing wear as well.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition Thus. Properly the Third Edition, First Printing. Originally published by the Argophile Press in 1958, then reprinted as A Miscellany Revised, edited by George Firmage [October House] in 1965. The present edition reprints the October House text. A Very Fine copy in green and blue paper covered boards, in a Very Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 364pp. Q13704.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. An anthology collecting together a variety of fiction and non-fiction writings of E. E. Cummings, the first U.K. edition. The first British Commonwealth edition, first impression.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.An anthology collecting together the miscellaneous writings of American author E. E. Cummings. This volume includes 'A Book without Title', his translation of Louis Aragon's 'The Red Front', alongside many other poems and critical pieces.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and a few in-text illustrations. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Light edge wear to the dust wrapper. Tidemark to the spine, and some spots to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. book.

First Edition. First edition. Collection of essays, one poem, and portions of a play with introduction and notes by Firmage and foreword by Cummings. Dark blue cloth stamped in silver on front and spine. Second state with p.41-2 integral [Firmage A26]. Fine in original glassine dust jacket with some chipping and few internal tape repairs to tears. A scarce book, scarcer still in original glassine.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, xi, 246 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in navy cloth with silver lettering on spine. Protected in glassine. Mild general shelf wear. Light age toning to textblock. Shelved in Case 0. 1411390. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in iron blue cloth stamped in silver, in a Very Good glassine dustwrapper, toned and nicked at extremities. 241pp. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Essays, satires, and a play. Filled with Cummings's irreverent mischievous wit. Superseded by the revised edition published by October House. Q19294.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by George J. Firmage. Foreword by the Author. Blue buckram lettered in silver. Fine in modestly chipped unprinted glassine dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: very good. first. INSCRIBED First edition, 2nd issue. Some rubbing to edges of covers, some soiling to rear cover, cracking to top of front gutter. Book very good. Comes in supplied slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, trade issue, one of two variants of the first state (no priority stated by Firmage), one of 164 copies with the pianoplayer illustration titled to the right - this is the smaller run of the two variants. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by George J. Firmage. Foreword by the Author. Blue buckram lettered in silver. Glossy illustrated pages with light foxing, else fine in age-toned unprinted glassine dust jacket, very good with small chips on spine head and short tear on rear panel on bottom edge. Inscribed by the publisher Deborah Benson Covington to author Malcolm Cowley: "For Muriel and Malcolm Cowley - With thanks for their warm hospitality & their appreciation of my modeling of the Viking T shirt on Nov. 21, 1980., Deborah Benson Covington (the publisher), 11-26-80, 22 years after publication.".

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. The Argophile Press, NY; 1958. First edition. Signed. 'This edition of E. E. Cummings: A Miscellany is limited to 75 copies numbered and signed by the author of which this is copy number 21.' Grey cloth boards with no dust jacket. Dark blue lettering to cover and spine. Small brownish stain to top of text block. Binding is solid. Headband at top of spine is very slightly loose. Edges of text block are mildly age-toned. No internal markings of any kind. No bookplates or previous owner marks. 8vo. 241pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Review copy. 1/50 "Review Copies" identified as such with an ink annotation to the rear pastedown, in ball-point pen; bound in plain light grey buckram, without titling or dustwrapper. Laid in is the hand-typed TLS Review Copy letter from Deborah Benson of the Press, dated May 31, 1958. 241pp. The contents are the same as the regular trade edition which followed, but (as noted) in a different binding from the medium blue buckram stamped in silver (with unprinted plain dustwrapper). Extremely scarce in this state. With frontis photo of Cummings by Marian Morehouse. A Fine copy. Q08320.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his French translator on the front free endpaper, "For Don Jon and Anne-Marie from Cummings and Marion, June 26 '58". Grossman has pencilled editorial annotations in the margins. 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. By 1960 he had published his first translation, and in 1980 he was awarded the Prix Halperine-Kaminsky for his Cummings translations. According to Firmage, there are three states of equal priority. The first, as here, consists of 164 copies with the piano player on page 42 titled downwards. A further 400 copies contain the upright illustration, and 413 copies have the illustration tipped in. The edition also included a limited issue of 75 signed and numbered copies and 50 numbered review copies. Firmage A26a. Octavo. Half-tone portrait frontispiece, photographic plate. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in silver. Contemporary newspaper clipping loosely inserted. Shelf label to front cover. Corners gently bumped, edges a little rubbed, mark to lower edge, toning from clipping to p. 142-43. A very good copy.