Nonlectures by Cummings E E, First Edition (31 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Fouth printing, 1965 published by Atheneum. Good condition. The covers look are tanned and have light staining to the bottom rear corner (near the spine). The book is rolled forward a bit. The binding is tight. The interior pages are unmarked and lightly tanned. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Without dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Sold as a very good reading copy only. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 118 pages, black cloth. A very good, otherwise clean and neat hard cover first edition over-all with moderate shelf wear, binding tight, paper lightly yellowed but with light foxing to the top fore-edge. Without dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 120 Pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardcover, first edition, 1953, part of The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1952-1953, very good condition in a good dust jacket, not price clipped, gift inscription front endpaper, owner's bookplate inside front cover, chipping and edgewear to jacket, six "nonlectures" given at Harvard in 1952 & 53.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Atheneum edition. 12mo. [xiii], 114pp. Owner name on the inside of the front wrappers, foxing to the edges, fading to the spine, and foxing to the wrappers, very good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 34.95 G FM POET - CUMMIN T17. First Edition. FIRST Edition. Harvard Press 1953. Collectible. Good hardbound book with dust jacket and covered in clear, protective Brodart for future preservation. Dust jacket shows wear under Brodart with tears/bits of missing pieces and shelf wear. GOOD - Collectible. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, Second Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Harvard University Press, 1953. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with sticker on front flyleaf. Dust jacket is very good with ring stain on front panel, creases to top of front and back panel, tears and shelf/edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A fine copy, clean and bright inside and out. In a very good dust jacket ($3.00 price intact) with some chipping at the spine ends and corners. REVIEW COPY with publisher's review slip and order postcard laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Black boards with white spine titles. Brief gift inscription in pencil on ffep. Near Fine. In a Very Copy, price-clipped DJ with chips missing along top edge of front and back panels. Tight and square. Requests photos if you like.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 113 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine black/white with black and white lettering. Moderate rubbing wear with few chips to edges and price clipped front flap. Boards have mild rubbing to head/tail edges. Text block has slight age toning to the edges, gift inscription to front end paper, light offsetting to end papers and sparse, small smudges interiorly. Illustrated. First Edition. 1370202. FP New Rockville Stock.

Large 8°. 118 pp. Original cloth with dust jacket. First Edition. - Unclipped dust jacket. Edgewear with short chips and tears. Gewicht (Gramm): 362.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1953. First printing. Book is in VG+ condition with no internal markings except for light stamp of prior owner on FFEP. DJ is missing. NOT ex-library. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Spine ends and corners gently bumped, else near fine in an about very good dust jacket with creased tears and chips along the edges, several interior tape repairs, and a toned spine.

; 114 pp.; DJ; F/VG+; The black jacket shows scuffing and has edge nicks. . . [kwA_ 1st Ed. ].

Originalbroschur. Condition: Wie neu. Deutsche ERSTAUSGABE. 149 Seiten ; 21 cm FRISCHES, SEHR schönes Exemplar der deutschen ERSTAUSGABE. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 230.

1953, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Near fine in very good dust jacket. 114pp. One passage has 2 red lines in the margin and a few lines of the text are underlined in pencil. The dust jacket has edgewear including creases, closed tears and chips. Publisher series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1952-1953. (Ideas, Ideas).

Condition: Good. First edition.Â118 [2] pp. No DJ. Black boards bound in cloth. Minimal wear to the spine. Shelf wear to the lower right corner of the front board. Fading headband. Collected here are the legendary Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered by poet E. E. Cummings at Harvard between 1952 and 1953. Cummings blends autobiography, literary criticism, and poetic philosophy, offering a playful yet profound meditation on art, individuality, and the creative spirit. This volume stands as probably the renowned poet's best known work of prose, a rare glimpse into his mind, method, and wit. Â.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 118pp. Pages modestly age-toned, spine slightly cocked a bit, else near fine in a very good lightly age-toned and rubbed dust jacket with short tears on edges. Advance Review Copy with publisher slip laid in.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Bound in clean, gleaming black cloth stamped brightly in white on the spine. Clean and tight throughout. In a rubbed dust jacket with wear to the top and bottom of the spine ends and light rubbing across the top and bottom edges of the rear panel. First Edition with matching dates of 1953. The Charles Eliot Norton lectures for 1952.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1953. First edition, Harvard University Press. The Charles Eliot Norton lectures for 1952. The text of six Charles Eliot Norton. Black and white dustjacket with handsome portrait of Cummings on the rear panel. 118 pp. Black cloth covers. Clean textblock. Unclipped dustjacket shows $3.00; has clear tape mended tears inside, along the spine panel folds, of the jacket. "nonlectures," which Cummings gave at Sanders Theatre during the autumn of 1952 and the following spring: 1. i & my parents 2. i & their son 3. i & selfdiscovery 4. i & you & is 5. i & now & him 6. i & am & santa claus Black and white dustjacket with handsome portrait of Cummings on the rear panel. 118 pp. Black cloth covers. Unmarked textblock. Unclipped Dustjacket shows $3.00; has clear tape mended tears inside, along the spine panel folds, of the jacket.

First Edition. Very nice copy in torn, price-clipped dust-wrapper that has been clumsily tape repaired internally, name on fly-leaf.

First edition. 8vo. 118 pp. Cloth binding worn and tattered dustwapper, else very good condition. (80793).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover, small chips, edge wear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Limited First Edition. First limited edition. One of 350 copies numbered and signed by Cummings, this being number 208. Publisher's two-toned white and black cloth, lettered in black to spine; in its original black dust jacket, lettered in white, price-clipped as usual. Near fine book, with a touch of wear to extremities, and light toning to spine; good dust jacket, with light toning to spine, variously worn and creased with a large area of loss to top edge of front panel. From the library of Pulitzer Prize winning author Kenneth Silverman, with "Sharon & Kenneth Silverman" bookplate to front pastedown. Overall, a tight and square copy with notable provenance. Six Nonlectures presents the text of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures given by E. E. Cummings in 1952-53, in which the author begins by warning his audience that he is indeed, not a lecturer. Throughout a series of six lectures, "i & my parents," "i & their son," "i & selfdiscovery," "i & you & is," "i & now & him," and "i & am & santa claus," Cummings speaks on a personal note about his own work and what it means to be a writer, asserting that the art form is meant to express individuality and that everyone, despite any claims otherwise, is inherently egocentric. Chiefly a biographer, Professor Kenneth Silverman co-directed the American Civilization program at NYU and won the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes for his work The Life and Times of Cotton Mather (1984). Other notable works of his include biographies of Edgar Allan Poe and Samuel F. B. Morse. A magician himself, he also profiled the life of Harry Houdini. Signed by Author.

8vo, pp.[8], 114, [4]; a fine copy in the publisher's black cloth, no dust-jacket; bookplate of D.G.Bridson (see below).First trade edition, inscribed to the BBC radio producer Douglas Geoffrey Bridson 'Wishing Geoffrey Bridson good luck / E.E.Cummings'. There was also a signed limited edition of 350 copies.Provenance:The Manchester-born poet, journalist, and radio producer Douglas Geoffrey Bridson (19101980) was responsible for over 800 broadcasts during his career at the BBC, 19331969. In the mid-1960s he was known as 'the cultural boss of the BBC' in his role as Programme Editor for Arts, Sciences, and Documentaries. Although a poet of no small ability himself, it was his tireless and democratic promotion of modern British and American literature on the airwaves that led to correspondence and then friendship with nearly all the major literary figures of his day, many of whose works he brought to a wider audience through his radio productions. 'Cummings had appeared alongside Bridson in Pound's Active Anthology in 1933, and Bridson had heard uncomplimentary anecdotes about Cummings from Robert Frost, but they did not meet until later: 'I was happily surprised to find how charming an unassuming E. E. Cummings actually was. I had heard him read at the New York Y the YM-YWHA, to give it the full title and had made a date with him to records a similar selection of his poems at his home in Patchin Place'' (Bridson, Prospero and Ariel). Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with modest overall wear. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author.

Hardcover. First Edition. Copy #31 of 350 of these lectures containing much poetry SIGNED by the poet on the limitation page. In addition this copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper: "inscribed (on behalf of/Burton L. Stratton)/for Allen Jefferson by/E. E. Cummings/March 4, 1954." Stratton is credited as the book's typography designer on the copyright page. Fine, bright copy lacking the uncommon dustwrapper.

Hardcover. First Edition. The Trade Edition of these lectures containing much poetry INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by the poet to author Fritz Peters: "A Merry Xmas/+/Happy New Year/to/Fritz Peters/from/Marion + EEC/4 Patchen Place 1953." Scarce to find genuine Cummings inscriptions. Fritz Peters at the age of 11 became the personal caretaker for the mystic philosopher Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. As an adult he wrote novels based on his own experiences with nervous breakdowns, alcoholism, a broken marriage, and homosexuality, as well as a memoir titled BOYHOOD WITH GURDJIEFF. Mild staining to cloth. Very Good in a Fair dustwrapper with much loss at the top rear and spine tips.

Hardcover. Condition: Coll - U7 - Good. Hardcover, Good. First printing. No dust jacket. Binding is solid.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his French translator on the front free endpaper, "Wishing Don Jon and Anne Marie the best of luck! Marion and E. E. C." The work was published in November, therefore this inscription was likely written ahead of the birth of the couple's son, Jerome, in December 1953. 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. i: Six Nonlectures comprises Cummings's series of Charles Eliot Norton "nonlectures" on the subject of egocentrism, which he gave at his alma mater Harvard University from autumn 1952 to spring 1953. Firmage A24a. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in white. With dust jacket. With 3 newspaper articles on Cummings, with Grossman's neat annotations, loosely inserted. Spine slightly rubbed, ends gently bumped, small spot at head, areas of toning to endpapers; unclipped jacket a little creased, spine lightly toned, a few nicks and short closed tears, small closed puncture to front panel: a very good copy in like jacket.