Tom by Cummings E E, Used (17 results)

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. small PAPERBACK, near fine. CUMMINGS, E. E. Tom. Balletto scenario (TEXT IN ITALIAN). Milano: Vanni Scheiwiller, 1967, Nr. 130 of an edition of 1000, 62pp., . Teatro (All'insegna del pesce d'oro (Firm)) ; n. 4. 3.60.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Ben Shawn (illustrator). 1st Edition. Brown cloth with titles in silver. Square octavo. 37 pages. Color frontis by Ben Shawn. Near fine copy, no dust jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Italian edition. Translated by Mary de Rachewiltz. 12mo. 63pp. Text in Italian. Red printed wrappers. A fine copy. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Issued as Teatreo N. 4.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Italian edition. Translated by Mary de Rachewiltz. 12mo. 63pp. Text in Italian. Red printed wrappers. A fine copy. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Issued as Teatreo N. 4.

Condition: Buone. italiano Condizioni dell'esterno: Buone Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.

Brossura. Condition: ottimo. prima edizione. Brossura, 62 pagine, tiratura in 1000 copie numerate. Ottima copia.

Condition: DISCRETO USATO. Teatro ITALIANO Brossura editoriale tascabile, esemplare n. 727 di tiratura limitata a 1000 copie, mezza copertina muta avvolta da sovraccoperta non removibile, lievemente segnata al margine da sfregamento e compressione, con minima alterazione cromatica, n. 4 della collana, versione dall'inglese di M. De Rachelwiltz, velo di ossidazione vintage ai fogli, denso pulviscolo da muffe ai tagli. N. pag. 62.

Brossura editoriale. Ottima copia. Edizione a tiratura limitata e numerata di 1000 esemplari (nostro n. 82). 16mo (cm. 18), 62 pp., 1 c.nn.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1935; New York; First Edition, limited to 1500 copies; color frontispiece by Ben Shahn; brown cloth covered boards with silver titles; light wear and rubbing; glassine jacket; Interior is clean and unmarked; pages are toned; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 37 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Silver lettered brown cloth, 23 cm, 37 pages. A ballet based on 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' . Frontispiece by Ben Shahn. Very good condition with silver lettering in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Shahn, Ben - Frontispiece (illustrator). First Edition. 38 pp, synopsis (episodes 1-4) followed by the main body of the poem. Spine lettering rubbed off, silver cover letters OK, previous owner's bookplate affixed inside fr pastedown, cloth threads show at very top and bottom of spine, else VG, pages clean, binding tight. . 6.4" x 8.75" maroon cloth boards Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Color frontis by Ben Shahn. (illustrator). First edition, first printing. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, TRANSFORMED INTO BALLET Beloved for his avant-garde poetry, E. E. Cummings transformed Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin into a ballet, rendering both the hope and devastation of her groundbreaking story into an ethereal dance that exudes rhythm even in its written form. One of four plays published within his lifetime, Tom was not performed for eighty years, first finding its spot on the stage in 2015. This copy is a first edition, first printing. Light edgewear with some toning extremities, near fine in very good dust jacket with some offsetting front panel, chipping to edges, a vertical tear separating the jacket from the front flap and a vertical fold to rear panel, in mylar cover.

37 pp. Color frontispiece by Ben Shahn. 8vo, original cloth. Slightest of rubbing at head and tail of spine; otherwise fine.

37 pp. With a frontispiece in color by Ben Shahn. 8vo, original cloth (the dust jacket, in four pieces lacking the spine, is laid in). Very minor use to cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece by Ben Shahn. Fine in very good or better dust jacket with a little soiling and a short tear.

First, Limited Edition (1500 copies). Octavo (22cm); dark red cloth, stamped in foil; color frontispiece by Ben Shahn; 36pp, frontis. Light soiling and wear to boards; textblock fore edge deckled, toning to page margins with light foxing intermittent throughout. Overall Near Fine, without dustwrapper. E.E. Cummings' Tom is the author's avant-garde attempt to interpret Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin as a ballet. Gestures are described through Cummings' prose-poetry, while the characters themselves are reimagined as doll-like entities. While Cummings intended for this project to eventually make it to a real stage, it was never performed in his lifetime, having seen multiple rejections for its inaccessibility.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his French translator on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed for D. Jon Grossman by E. E. Cummings, May 10 '51", and additionally signed by Cummings on the first blank. 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. Firmage A15. Octavo. Colour frontispiece by Ben Shahn. Original brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in silver, brown endpapers, fore and lower edges uncut. With supplied dust jacket. Spine ends gently bumped, light rubbing and couple of marks, faint splash marks to first blank; jacket unclipped, a few shallow chips and closed tears, light marks: a very good copy in like jacket.