Nonlectures by Cummings E E, Signed (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited/Numbered. SIGNED by e e cummings on limitation page. Limited edition of 350 enumerated copies (#233/350). Hardbound in dust jacket. A very good copy in a fair to good dust jacket. Jacket shows wear, creases, and chips, especially to spine edge and to upper edge of rear panel; otherwise good. Book is very good but for previous owner's name written in ink on front free end page and only minor foxing to endpapers. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Signed Limited Edition. Signed, Ltd Ed. 137 of 350 copies. First published in 1953 and never out of print, i: six nonlectures are the six Charles Eliot Norton "lectures" which Cummings delivered in the Sanders Theatre at Harvard University in 1952-1953. As the title indicates, the book is about Cummings' lowercase "i" --his self. In the first three nonlectures, Cummings talks about the influences that formed that self--his family, his early life in Cambridge, MA, his reading, and his encounters with notable places: Norton's Woods, New York City, and Paris. He ends each nonlecture with readings from his own and others' poems. The last three nonlectures are devoted to Cummings' writings--his poems, plays (Him and Santa Claus), and prose works (The Enormous Room and Eimi). Written in the poet's idiosyncratic style, these nonlectures are amusing, entertaining, and enlightening, telling you more about the Cummings world-view than any of his other books. Lightly dappled foxing to the top of the text block & backstrip. Light DJ offsetting on the front endpaper & backstrip; else clean, square, bright, tight & sharp. Dust jacket rubbed at the folds and some closed tears at the extremities. Inscribed by Author(s).

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.

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.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Signed Limited First Edition. First edition, limited issue. Copy number 113 of a limited 350 signed by E.E. Cummings. Bound in publisher's original black cloth over ivory spine cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with toning to pages and slightly so to spine cloth. In a Near Fine unclipped correct limited edition dust jacket, which is lightly rubbed, lightly edge worn and spine toned, with a few indentations to the surface. Six lectures, often provocative and brilliant, delivered Cummings at Harvard University.