Viva by Cummings E E, First Edition (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Thus. A beautiful copy with light signs of wear to covers. Pages clean, spine strong. [Montreal Books Rating System: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Thus. A beautiful copy with light signs of wear to covers. Pages clean, spine strong. [Montreal Books Rating System: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.

First Edition Near fine tall stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. The first edition, first printing with full number line.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. First Thus. Reading copy. Ex-library. With all the normal flaws. Hardcover with dust jacket. Nice solid copy.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good softcover, 1970 Introduction by Malcolm Cowley.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition stated, first printing with complete number line. Review copy with notice laid in. A Near Fine copy of the book in a dustjacket with one shallow chip at the top of the front panel. Fro the personal library of Mona Van Duyn and Jarvis Thurston.

Condition: New. 2022. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition thus, typescript edition edited by George J. Firmage. Slight offsetting on flyleaves from dust jacket flaps, light wear along top edge of boards, near fine in a clipped (price intact) near fine dust jacket with a small crease on the rear panel. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with significant offsetting and staining to boards (common with this title) and shadow on front endpapers, likely from previously inserted document or clipping. Binding firm, and text clean and unmarked. In a very good minus example of the fragile dust jacket with chipping to extremities, closed tear near bottom of front panel, and clear archival tape repair to reverse at spine folds. A collection of 70 poems featuring themes of individuality, love, and anti-authoritarianism, including highlights such as "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" and "i sing of Olaf glad and big.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 70 poems printed one to a page with roman numerals. Hardcover, bound in cloth backed boards. The boards are unevenly tanned, the original front cover design barely discernible; the fore-corners well rubbed. Marginal toning throughout. Scarce.

First edition, signed limited issue, number 19 of 95 copies signed by the author, printed on special paper, and issued with a slipcase. This collection of 70 poems includes some of Cummings's most experimental and memorable pieces, including "somewhere i have never travelled". It is from the library of the literary couple Walter and Dorothy Donnelly, including their illustrated bookplate. Dorothy (1903-1994) was an acclaimed poet and essayist who wrote for the French magazine transition, and Walter (1900-1981) was editor of the University of Michigan Press. Firmage A11b. Tall octavo. Original dark silver quarter cloth, spine lettered in silver, grey board sides, edges uncut. With original glassine jacket. Housed in publisher's card slipcase. With remnants of original glassine jacket loosely inserted. Slipcase lightly rubbed and with wear to edges, pencilled reference to his book CIPOW on rear: a fine copy in very good slipcase.