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Cummings, E.E.. Eimi.. Covici Friede Publishers, New York, 1933.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second Printing, in same year as first. A Near Fine copy in yellow cloth stamped in black, lacking the fragile dustwrapper. Mild overall soil, but no significant wear. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. 432pp. The Author's eccentric account of a trip to Soviet Russia. Q07992
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
E.E. Cummings. Eimi. Covici Friede, New York, 1933.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing March, 1933 (First Printing was February, 1933). Book has been rebound (recased) in full gold morocco. Master bookbinder used the cloth panel title and the cloth spine titles of the original 1933 cloth binding. No wear to the binding. Some minor scratches and cuts to the spine. No slope, no twist to the book from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. New marbled paper end sheets and pastedowns. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. No sun fading . Photos available upon request.
Seller: Book Stall of Rockford, Inc., Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E. E.. EIMI ("I AM"). New York: Covici, Friede Publishers., 1933.
Price: US$367.15 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Limited edition. Publisher's original yellow cloth with black lettering to spine and front panel, without the scarce dustwrapper. Fore-edge and lower edge rough-cut. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth fresh with just a touch of darkening to the spine. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. An attractive example. Issued in a limited edition of 1381 copies, this example is numbered 344 and signed by the E. E. Cummings in black ink on the colophon page at the rear. The colophon reads "this, the first edition, printed from type, has been limited to 1381 copies; representing the number of orders received by [the publishers] up to February 15, 1933. The author joins with the publishers in congratulating S. A. Jacobs; who designed the format of 'EIMI', solved all technical problems connected with the typesetting and printing, and from start to finish personally supervised the book's production". The book, published on March 28, 1933. 'EIMI' and described by Richard Kennedy as "the most elaborate work [Cummings] ever wrote [.] a turning point in his life" is an unusual and ambitious hybrid: part travelogue (a diary of a thirty-six day journey from Paris to Moscow, Kiev, Odessa, Constantinople and then, by the Orient Express, back to France), part autobiography, but also a work of imagination informed by the allegorical scheme of Dante's 'Commedia'. (Richard S. Kennedy, 'Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E. E. Cummings'; Firmage A13). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
CUMMINGS, E.E.. Eimi.. Covici Friede, New York., 1933.
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 432 pages. The author travels through the USSR, an experience which seems to have set his future politics on a rightward trajectory.One of 1381 numbered copies signed by the author. The unusual limitation, the publishers explain at the colophon, simply reflects the number of orders they had received at the time of printing. Also at the colophon, S.A. Jacobs, who designed the book, is thanked for his no doubt Herculean efforts in seeing Cummings' tortured syntax and punctuation through the press.Faint creases to last two blanks and rear free endpaper (probably a production fault). Very good indeed. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Cummings, E.E.. EIMI. Covici, Friede, New York, 1933.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 1,381 signed by E.E. Cummings, this is number 1,142. Intrigued by the portrait of the Soviet Union as a workers' and artists' paradise, Cummings (1894-1962) was one of the few American writers to actually travel there in the 1930s. Horrified by what he encountered, Cummings composed this dense, often difficult denunciation of collectivism and was subsequently forsaken by the American left, which had previously championed the open sexuality and iconoclastic arrangement of his verse. In the fall of 2007, W.W. Norton published a new edition of this work, "bringing back to light a singular artifact of American literary modernism" (Sam Munson). Octavo. Original yellow cloth binding, with black titles. Typical mild fading along the spine, with a bit of negligible wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good. Firmage A13.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. Eimi. Covici Friede, New York, 1933.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Copy 1216 of a limited 1381 numbered copies, signed by E.E. Cummings. 432, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth stamped in black; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with tear to cloth at head, a little toning to cloth, lacking dust jacket. The author's stream-of-conscious memoir of his 1931 trip to Soviet Russia.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. Eimi. Covici Friede, New York, 1933.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Copy 1108 of a limited 1381 numbered copies, signed by the author. Publisher's yellow cloth binding stamped in black; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with spine darkened and worn at ends. Scratching to topstain. Contents toned. The author's stream-of-conscious memoir of his 1931 trip to Soviet Russia.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E.E.. Eimi. Covici Friede, New York, 1933.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 432 pages. Tall thick 8vo, black-lettered yellow cloth; minor dust-soiling and sunning with a touch of wear at head. New York: Covici Friede, 1933. Limited First Edition. Number 1169 of 1381 copies, signed by Cummings on the colophon page. A very good(+) copy, lacking the dust wrapper. Story of a trip through Soviet Russia.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E. [Edward Estlin]. EIMI.. New York, Covici, Friede, 1933.
Price: US$451.40 + shipping
Description: OLwd. m. geprägtem Rücken- u. Deckeltitel, Farbkopfschnitt. Gr.8°, 432 S., 1 Bl. Impressum. Lwd. unsauber, Fuss etw. gedrückt, angestaubt, Vorsätze u. folgende Bl. etw. stockfleckig, innen sonst tadellos. EA («the first edition, printed from type»). Ex. Nr. 167/1381. Vom Verfasser im Impressum in blauer Tinte signiert und nummeriert.
Seller: Antiquariat Uhlmann, Zürich, Switzerland
Cummings, E. E.. EIMI. Covici Friede Inc, New York, 1933.
Price: US$485.00 + shipping
Description: Book condition is Very Good in boards. Toning. A few smudges and minor edge wear to boards. Text is clean and unmarked. ; Signed by the author, E. E. Cummings, on the Limitation page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
E E Cummings. Eimi. Covici Friede Inc., E-144, 1933.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Covici Friede Inc Publishers, New York. 1933. 432 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Number 403 of 1381 signed limited copies. Signed by E. E. Cummings on the limitation page. Bound in yellow cloth boards with black titles present to the spine and the front board. No ownership marks present. Endpapers have light soil present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. While sometimes termed a "novel," it is better described as a novelistic travelogue, the diary of a trip to Russia in the 1930s during the rise of the Stalinist government. Despite some contempt for what he witnesses, Cummings's narrator has an effective, occasionally hilarious way of evoking feelings of accord and understanding. As Ezra Pound wrote, Cummings's Soviet Union is laid "out there pellucidly on the page in all its Slavic unfinishedness, in all of its Dostoievskian slobberyness.Does any man wish to know about Russia? 'EIMI'!" A stylistic tour de force, EIMI is a mélange of styles and tones, the prose containing many abbreviations, grammatical and syntactical shifts, typographical devices, compounds, and word coinages. This is Cummings's invigorating and unique voice at its finest, and EIMI is without question one of his most substantial accomplishments. E-144; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 432 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E. E.. Eimi. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.. Covici Friede Publishers. New York, 1933.
Price: US$644.13 + shipping
Description: First edition. No DW. Large 8vo. Limited to 1381 copies, signed by Cummings, this being number 220. 432pp. Original yellow cloth, boldly printed in black. Cloth sl. soiled to spine and top edge, endpapers and edges foxed and sl. soiled o/w a sound and clean copy. VG.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Cummings, E.E.. Eimi [Signed]. Covici, Friede, Publishers, New York, 1933.
Price: US$715.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing, one of 1,381 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.1,275. Octavo (22.25cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; [ii],432,[6]pp. Crown gently nudged, faint foxing to upper spine, upper board edges, and rear joint, with some dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; one lower corner gently tapped (though still shar); a bright, Very Good+ copy, lacking the fragile dustjacket. Journal of the poet's trip to Russia in the Spring of 1931. FIRMAGE A13a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Cummings, E.E.. Eimi. Covici, Friede, New York, 1933.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. No. 456 of 1381 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 432, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Yellow cloth, lettered in black. Lacking dust jacket, minor soiling to covers, previous owner's embossed stamp on flyleaf First edition. No. 456 of 1381 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. EIMI. Covici Friede Publishers, New York, 1933.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited Edition #390/1381. Signed. 432 pages. Pages clean, good condition. Previous owner's name at top of ffep, otherwise beige endpapers clean. Yellow cloth with black title on spine and upper cover. Corners of lower cover lightly bumped. GOOD+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
E E Cummings. Eimi. Covici Friede Inc., E-026, 1933.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Covici Friede Inc Publishers. 1933. 432 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Number 85 of 1381 signed limited copies. Signed by E. E. Cummings on the limitation page. Sales slip from James Cummings laid in. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ (all panels of the DJ are present but detached from each other). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. While sometimes termed a "novel," it is better described as a novelistic travelogue, the diary of a trip to Russia in the 1930s during the rise of the Stalinist government. Despite some contempt for what he witnesses, Cummings's narrator has an effective, occasionally hilarious way of evoking feelings of accord and understanding. As Ezra Pound wrote, Cummings's Soviet Union is laid "out there pellucidly on the page in all its Slavic unfinishedness, in all of its Dostoievskian slobberyness.Does any man wish to know about Russia? 'EIMI'!" E-026; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 432 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E.E.. Eimi. Covici, Friede, New York, 1933.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in about very good dust jacket with a scrape on the rear panel affecting some text, and small tears and nicks at the crown. One of 1381 numbered copies Signed by the author. An attractive copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E. E.. Eimi.. New York: Covici, Friede, 1933, 1933.
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed limited issue, number 7 of 1,381 copies signed by the author, additionally inscribed "For H.W. from EEC. April 3". Eimi was a travelogue, in Cummings's signature abstract prose, of his visit to the Soviet Union in 1931. As explained on the limitation page, the unusual limitation was apparently simply a reflection of the number of orders received by 15 February 1933. Large octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, fore and bottom edge uncut. Spine ends and tips a little bumped and worn, 3 short closed tears to head of spine, boards a little soiled with two marks to rear board, a few light pencil annotations to contents. A very good copy, square and firm.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Cummings, E. E.. Eimi. Covici Friede, New York, 1933.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, signed limited issue. Copy 1339 of a limited 1381 numbered copies, signed by the E. E. Cummings on the limitation page. Bound in publisher's canary yellow cloth stamped vividly in black. Near Fine with light soiling to cloth, former owner name to front free endpaper and pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning to the spine, chipping to extremities and several long tears with repairs made to the verso with mending tissue. The author's stream-of-conscious memoir of his 1931 trip to Soviet Russia.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: 433 pp. 8vo, publisher's gold boards lettered in black. First edition; No. 318 of 1381 copies signed by Cummings. Endsheets tanned; boards a little foxed; tight and sound. Inscribed by E. E. Cummings for John Bishop, Alison Lurie's first husband, May 21, 1933, evidently on his birthday, and signed three times: E.E. Cummings, Edward E. Cummings, and E. Estlin Cummings.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Cummings, E.E.. EIMI.. Covici Friede, New York, 1933.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition. #266/1381 copies, Numbered, and SIGNED on the Colophon by Cummings. A Fine copy bound in yellow cloth stamped in black, in a Fine pale tan dustwrapper printed in black, not price-clipped, with one small tear to lower front panel, and two minuscule tears top crown. Else about as new. An account of a trip to Russia, recorded in an abstract, idiosyncratic style. Fine copies of this edition, in the fragile dustwrapper, are scarce. Q10309
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E. E.. Eimi.. New York: Covici, Friede, 1933, 1933.
Price: US$2576.53 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed limited issue, number 756 of 1,381 copies signed by the author, with an unsually smart example of the scarce dust jacket. Eimi was a travelogue, in Cummings's signature abstract prose, of his visit to the Soviet Union in 1931. As explained on the limitation page, the unusual limitation was apparently simply a reflection of the number of orders received by 15 February 1933. Large octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom tan morocco backed folding case. Cloth very fresh, some minor spotting to endpapers but sound and clean within, an excellent copy, with the jacket unusually well preserved, a few closed tears to edges and some general light foxing.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Cummings, E. E.. Eimi. Covici Friede, New York, 1933.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, signed limited issue. Copy 131 of a limited 1381 numbered copies, signed by the E. E. Cummings on the limitation page. Bound in publisher's canary yellow cloth stamped vividly in black. Near Fine with light wear to corners and spine ends, light creasing to rear pages, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning to the spine and light edge wear including a short tear to the top and bottom end of the rear spine joint. The author's stream-of-conscious memoir of his 1931 trip to Soviet Russia.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Cummings, E.E.. EIMI.. Covici Friede Publishers., New York, 1933.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing, Limited to 1381 copies (#936), Numbered and SIGNED by Cummings on on the Colophon. Very Fine in bright yellow cloth stamped in black, in a Very Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 432pp. An account of a trip to the Soviet Union, presented in an abstract prose style. Q03487
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.