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CUMMINGS, e.e. (1894-1962). The Enormous Room. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.
8vo. Original light brown cloth lettered in black on cover and spine, uncut; in unclipped dust jacket (spine and flap folds sunned, light chipping at extreme ends, old tape repairs on verso); cloth chemise and slipcase. Provenance: Bernice (presentation inscription from Marion Morehouse).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST WORK, with p.219 in the uncorrected state.
SIGNED BY CUMMINGS below a gift inscription from his second wife Marion Morehouse. e. e. Cummings' autobiographical first novel is based on his experiences as an enlistee with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France, where he openly expressed anti-war views. He was arrested and held by the French military on suspicion of espionage for three and a half months. Of Cummings' first novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives — ”The Enormous Room by e. e. cummings...Those few who cause books to live have not been able to endure the thought of its mortality." Firmage A1.
8vo. Original light brown cloth lettered in black on cover and spine, uncut; in unclipped dust jacket (spine and flap folds sunned, light chipping at extreme ends, old tape repairs on verso); cloth chemise and slipcase. Provenance: Bernice (presentation inscription from Marion Morehouse).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST WORK, with p.219 in the uncorrected state.
SIGNED BY CUMMINGS below a gift inscription from his second wife Marion Morehouse. e. e. Cummings' autobiographical first novel is based on his experiences as an enlistee with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France, where he openly expressed anti-war views. He was arrested and held by the French military on suspicion of espionage for three and a half months. Of Cummings' first novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives — ”The Enormous Room by e. e. cummings...Those few who cause books to live have not been able to endure the thought of its mortality." Firmage A1.
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CUMMINGS, e.e. (1894-1962). The Enormous Room. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.
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