Poems by Cummings E E, Signed (14 results)

Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition. Signed first printing of this collection of poems for little readers, including works by e. e. cummings, Lewis Carroll, Shakespeare, and more. THE GUARDIAN identifies Michael Foreman as "one of the best-known British writer-illustrators," in part thanks to his remarkable output: since he began his career in 1961, he has published over 300 books for children and adults. He has earned two Kate Greenaway Medals, and has twice been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Scarce signed. 7.75'' x 5''. Original blue boards. Original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. 160. Signed by Foreman to title page. Sharp. Signed.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HARDBACK NODustJacket, 1945, 1st Edition, NF-/VG-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Beige cloth with rub, wear Scuff cvr, Titled in Red on Spine cvr with slight creases wear, Interior nice tight cleanlight wear fox. 232 pgs with List of magazines in back .Includes At Aunt Kathies, Aerial Killer, The Solitary, Noah's ark, Paterson, the Falls, ETC. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Signed by E E Cummings on the front free end page. 2nd printing. Hardbound in dust jacket. Offsetting to end pages. Age toning to blue dust jacket inner flap & spine, otherwise very good. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Original pattern boards and black cloth fine in a very good dust jacket, some minor wear and chips, but handsome in a mylar bordart jacket of protection. this is the first trade edition however it is signed by the author EE Cummings on the title page with his characteristic bold EE C rare thus. one of his lasat books Cummings was born in 1894 and died in 1962. one of America's best poets, whose image should emblazon our postage. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Limited Edition, #103/280. Octavo, 108 pages. In Very Good condition, slipcase in Very Good condition. Boards in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Spine has greenish hue due to sunning. Housed in black slipcase. General shelf wear damage to slipcase. Rubbing to edges and corners of boards. Top-edge of text block sprayed yellow. Signed flat by Cummings on publisher's tipped-in page. Shelved in Case 0. Cummings was prolific poet, painter, author and playwright; having written 2,900 poems alone. Considered to be one of the most influential poets of the 20th century, Cummings wrote with modernist free-form poetry. He was known for his use of syntax, grammar and punctuation as a means for topographical exploration; converging poetry and visual art. "95 Poems" is the final book of new poems published within Cummings's' lifetime. 1411389. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Signed.

Original Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Designed and printed by Galen Harley. First edition thus. One of 35 numbered copies, this being number 8. Signed and inscribed by printer Galen Harley in pencil to title page: "To my very / dear friend Dave / Very best wishes / Galen." Publisher's brown wrappers, front wrapper lettered in white, text printed on handmade paper and tissue colored in varying shades of brown. About fine, with a couple of light creases to front wrapper. Housed in a custom white folding slipcase. This collection features nine poems spanning E.E. Cummings' career, which first appeared in Tulips and Chimneys (1923), & (1925), 50 Poems (1940), and other volumes. The nine poems are: "love is more thicker than forget," "Spring is like a perhaps hand," "here's a little mouse)and," "this little bride & groom are," "it may not always be so; and i say," "my father moved through dooms of love," "who knows if the moon's," "anyone lived in a pretty how town," "stars rain sun moon," and "yes is a pleasant country:" The longest poem in the collection, "my father moved through dooms of love," is a moving tribute by Cummings to his father who died in a terrible car accident in 1926. One of the greatest American poets of the 20th century, E. E. Cummings (1894 - 1962) often married unconventional grammar and punctuation to traditionally poetic themes, like love and childhood. American poet Randall Jarrell wrote of Cummings, "No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to the general and the special reader.". Signed By Printer.

Hardcover. Signed Limited First Edition. First edition, limited issue. Copy #98 of 150, signed by E.E. Cummings on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's oatmeal cloth with title onlay to front cover, spine lettered in gilt, housed in publisher's slipcase. Publisher's limitation slip laid in, explaining that this signed edition is for subscriber's only. Very Good+ with trivial toning to spine, offsetting to endpapers, a little waviness to pages along bottom edge. Slipcase a little rubbed and mottled but presents well. Lacking the glassine. Ahearn APG 018a.

First edition, inscribed by the poet to his French translator David Jonathan Grossman and his family on the front free endpaper: "For Anne-Marie & Jerome & Don Jon, with the good wishes of M. M. & E. E. C. 4 Patchin Place, November 21 '58". Loosely inserted are eight handwritten pages of translational drafts by Grossman. 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 book of translations, and in 1980 he was awarded the Prix Halperine-Kaminsky for his Cummings work. The present working drafts are loosely inserted next to the corresponding printed poems on pages 17, 21, 30, 53, 62, 66, 72, and 81. Accompanying the book is an autographed postcard from Marion Morehouse thanking Grossman for sending them a copy of the French L'Arc magazine. Three of Grossman's Cummings translations were printed in the July 1958 issue. This copy is from the trade issue. A signed limited issue of 300 copies was published earlier the same year. Firmage A27b. Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, spine lettered in brown, brown paper sides, "95" design to covers in black. With dust jacket. Grossman's shelf label to jacket front panel. Minor marks and bumps to binding; jacket unclipped, spine a little toned, light rubbing and creases, a few small chips: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.

First edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. This copy belonged to Cummings's French translator, David Jonathan Grossman. Loosely inserted are five handwritten pages of translational drafts; the corresponding poems are printed on pages 11, 17, 25, 32, and 69. These poems remained unpublished in French until Brice Matthieussent's translation of Xaipe (2022). 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. Grossman has marked up the contents pages in pencil, attributing the first appearances in print of poems which had previously appeared in periodicals. Firmage A23. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in silver, front cover lettered in blind. With dust jacket. Grossman's shelf label to jacket front panel. Spine a little faded, bump to spine foot, nick to a couple of upper margins; jacket unclipped, spine toned, panels lightly faded, mark to front panel, couple of nicks and small chips: a very good copy in like jacket.

Presentation copies of the first and second printings, both inscribed by the poet to his French translator, David Jonathan Grossman, on the front free endpapers. The first printing includes Cummings's editorial corrections on 26 pages, and 10 pages are bookmarked with numbered scrap paper. The first printing is inscribed to Grossman and his family: "For Jerome, Anne Marie, & Don Jon, from Marion & EEC, 4 Patchim Place, October 14 1954, (errors noted are to be corrected in the 2nd edition - supposing there is one)". Grossman has extensively marked up the contents pages with pencilled notes on the printing history of the poems. He has also solved the anagram "of radarw ledchin" on page 240. The second, corrected printing is inscribed, "Don Jon Grossman, who's responsible for nearly all the corrections which distinguish this edition from the previous one. EEC, January 22 1958". Loosely inserted at page 306 is the typed poem "the boys i mean are not refined", which was not printed in the book and which was expunged from the previous collection No Thanks (1935). 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. Firmage A25. 2 works, octavo. Original red cloth, spines and front covers lettered in silver on burgundy ground, top edges red. With dust jackets (the second printing with two dust jackets, each bearing Grossman's shelf label). New York Times review on the collection loosely inserted. Spine ends sunned, couple bumps and marks to cloth: jackets unclipped, slightly chipped and torn, one with tape to flaps: very good copies in like jackets.

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.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First trade edition, first printing. Signed by E. E. Cummings on the front free endpaper and inscribed to the recipient with date November 10 '58. Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's printed paper-covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in brown. Near Fine with light wear to extremities, several tiny white marks to spine, and traces of residue to upper right corner of rear board. Light offsetting to front endpapers, several small marks to prelims, contents lightly toned. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with moderate edgewear, minimal foxing to verso, and light toning, soiling, and rubbing. The last book of new poetry published in Cummings' lifetime; signed trade editions are uncommon.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition; Copy 266 of 300 and signed by the author. Blue cloth covered boards with gold titles; minimal wear; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; label on slipcase has mild rubbing; otherwise minimal wear; numbered and signed on dedicated page; interior is clean and unmarked; 95 pages. Signed by Author.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First trade edition, first printing. Signed by the poet on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original pale orange cloth stamped in maroon, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to cloth at spine,wear at spine ends and corners, pages toned.