Typed Letter Signed by Cummings E E (3 results)
Published by 4 Patchin Place, [New York], 1946
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Creased from prior folding. 2 pp. typed, with hand-addressed envelope. 8vo (11 x 8-1/2 in.). "the enclosed is what I happen to believe. If your friend, the South American poetess, still wishes to 'interview' me after she has read and understood it - fine and dandy; provided she'll heartily agree to [underlined] quote…me (somewhere in the course of her radiotalk) as saying [underlined] exactly this and nothing else ." Followed on a separate sheet by "individuality always was and always will be the one and only reality: I love it. What a loveless world calls 'publicity' is nothing but the disease of unreality; and I loathe it. If you ask me for an individual, I give you William Shakespeare. E.E. Cummings." [With:] One page Typed Letter, signed, from Cummings' wife, Marion Morehouse, written in 1934 during her and Cummings' stay in Tunisia at Baron Huene's villa at Hammamet, expressing disdain for the open homosexuality of the Tunisian men, "There isn't much to write about as we hardly ever leave our place. The people down here are terrible, with few exceptions. They're all queer and such queers you have never seen .". 2 pp. typed, with hand-addressed envelope. 8vo (11 x 8-1/2 in.). Signed.
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Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 850.00
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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. ("C's") in pencil on plain letter paper, April 28, 1946. 8 1/2" x 11"; 1 page (recto only). Very good. Together with the original hand addressed mailing envelope, in the hand of E.E. Cummings, stamped and postmarked April 28, 1946, New York, N.Y. With Cummings signature and return address on the… back flap, 4 Patchen Place, New York City. To Mr. Sanders Russell 1130 Ellis Street San Francisco (9) California Cummings sends a two page proof titled "Four Poems." (present here) Russell was a San Francisco poet and poetry magazine editor. Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA)
Contact seller1-star sellerTo the editor of "The Poet", Glasgow. One page, typewritten by Cummings, signed with his monogram. This response to seeing his work in print seems like a poem: "The charming Poet is here; and as | I finished his fifth page, Spring arrived | what a whole continent of luck! "Never does your proudly humble servant remember feeling…such deep-or-actual gaiety in any 'review': and next this complexly miraculous truth dwells the simply astounding fact that Two Poems are quoted As Is "saying I'm thankful would be saying far more than much less than minusnothing.".
