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Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1922. Moderate general wear. Binding and page ends soiled. Previous owner name. Front endpaper browned from newspaper article. 6106
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E. E.. The Enormous Room. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 271 p. 20 cm. Brown cloth with black print. Wrapped in mylar (removed for photo). Some spotting and discolouration to cloth. Ink signatures on endpapers. A few page edges roughened when cut. An autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. Having volunteered as a Red Cross ambulance driver, Cummings was charged with sedition and incarcerated in a notorious French military detention camp called La Ferté Mace. His crime? He had expressed anti-war sentiments. His experiences in France's version of a concentration camp make for disturbing reading and make one wonder if any side in war is ever "right." First Edition, second state, with a word hand-cancelled in ink on last line of p. 219.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$59.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good in tan boards. True First Edition. First State. Shaken and separating but holding. This is the uncensored version. Word on page 219 (shit) is intact and not marked out. Gift inscription on the FFEP. Spine covering shows wear but lettering is still intact. Dampness has caused the interior pages to be wavy but there is little discoloration. We wrap and box our books for shipping.
Seller: Robert Fulgham, Bookseller, Idaho Falls, ID, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. The Enormous Room. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, 2nd issue. Good, light brown cloth, covers a little grubby, spine head starting to fray, ink name on ffep, some age toning around edge of pages.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
E.E.Cummings. The Enormous Room. Boni and Liveright, 1922.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback book (271 pages) first edition, second state with the letter "shit" blacked out on page 219, bottom line. Spine shows scuffing/rubbing - private bookplate inside front board. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-13-Middle-L) rareviewbooks
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Cummings, E.E.. THE ENORMOUS ROOM. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The second state with "shit" expurgated from p.219. The poet's first separately published book: the account of his wartime incarceration by the French. An auspicious debut, and one of the lasting books to come out of the Great War. Much admired by many of Cummings' contemporaries, including T.E. Lawrence, who called it "one of the very best of the war books" and actively worked to promote its English publication. Octavo: vii, 271 p. Original tan cloth binding, with black titles. Some general dust staining to the top edge. The spine is darkened, with a bit of mild wear to the corners and tips; else very good. Firmage A2.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E. E.. The Enormous Room. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 271 pages. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, second issue with "shit" expurgated on p. 219. Firmage A2. Some foxing; light wear at extremities, spine faded; lacks jacket. A good, sound copy
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. The Enormous Room. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second state. Tan cloth with black embossed lettering to spine and front cover. Book shows some edge wear, including light bumos to head and heel of the spine and corners. Spine has been lightly tanned, and there is a small mark to rear cover. Pages show some browning at edges and mild top-edge soiling, neither of which effect the text, and the front hinge is barely beginning to loosen. Text remains crisp and clean. A solid copy of this scarce volume.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Cummings, E.E.. The Enormous Room. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second state, with "Shit!" inked over in last line, p. 219. 271 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Firmage A2a(2) Publisher's brown cloth. Cloth worn at spine ends, front cover tender First edition, second state, with "Shit!" inked over in last line, p. 219.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E. The Enormous Room. Boni and Liveright, 1922.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Boni & Liveright, 1922; no additional printings indicated; second state of first edition, with the naughty word blacked out on pg. 219; book shop label of Mabel Ulrich Book Shop fixed to rear paste-down--Mabel S. Ulrich was medical doctor and lecturer, an early advocate for womens health and sexual hygiene, head of the Minnesota Writer's Project for the WPA, and a bookseller who at one point owned five book shops in Minneapolis; pp.vii, [8]-271. Binding is sturdy and square; moderate amount of edgewear, mottling to boards; damp-staining apparent on cloth over spine, liquid stain to top edge of page-block, black title text partially rubbed off at head and foot, publisher's name unreadable; text is very good throughout; previous owner inscription on front paste-down. NOT an ex-library copy, NO remainder mark. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Cummings, E E. The Enormous Room. Boni and Liveright (1922), New York, 1922.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 271p octavo. A fine copy in tan cloth. Second state with word inked out on page 219.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. THE ENORMOUS ROOM. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 271 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in brown cloth with black lettering. Boards have mild edge and shelf wear. Textblock has bookplate on front pastedown and slight tearing to tail edge of some pages. "Shit" censored on last line of Page 219. Shelved in Case 13. 1374360. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First Edition, First Printing, Second Issue.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
E.E. Cummings. The Enormous Room. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's light brown buckram with black titles and single 1922 date on copyright page. First state with 'SHIT!' on page 219 which a prior owner attempted to erase but with the S and other letter outlines still visible. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Scarce.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E.E.. The Enormous Room.. Boni and Liveright, New York., 1922.
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Description: First edition. First issue, with the word ''shit'' intact in the last line of page 219. In later issues the word was blocked out. Octavo. 271 pages. The author's first book and one of the cornerstones of First World War literature.At page 111 a reader seems to have had a slight accident with a cup of tea or coffee which has left two spots on the margin and one or two others on the fore-edge. Contemporary (1925) ownership signature on front free endpaper. Small bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Rear inner hinge starting but tight. A few spots to fore-edge. Covers a bit darkened at spine and edges. Very good. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Cummings, E. E.. The Enormous Room. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second state. Publisher's mustard yellow cloth, lettered in black. Some soiling and rubbing to the spine, light soiling to the covers, former owner signature to front endpaper. A very good copy. The Enormous Room is an autobiographical novel that details E.E. Cummings' time in a French prison during World War I. Serving as an ambulance driver, Cummings and his friend William Slater Brown, named "B" in the book, expressed anti-war sentiments while they were enlisted. Cummings himself proclaimed to have had no ill will towards the Germans they were fighting against. The pair also preferred the company of the French to their American peers; this behavior garnered negative attention and landed the two in prison under suspicion of espionage. The book describes their time imprisoned in an "enormous room" with thirty other people. The title refers to both the physical space Cummings was held captive in and the place in his mind where his memories of the event live.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Cummings, E.E.. The Enormous Room. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 271pp; cloth. The poet's autobiographical novel based on his experience in a French prison camp in the First World War. This is from the second issue, with the word "shit" censored on p. 219. Spine darkened a shade, else close to fine without dust jacket, in a custom made cloth slipcase.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
E.E. Cummings. The Enormous Room. Boni & Liveright, 1922.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first printing of Cummings' first book, an autobiographical novel based upon his temporary imprisonment in France during World War 1. The uncommon first state with the word "shit" uncensored on page 219 (Firmage A2a). New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. Publisher's original tan cloth, titles stamped in black; pp. [2], vii, [1], 9-271. A good copy. Binding a touch shaken and overopened, boards show wear and rubbing with some fraying to extremities, spine and boards toned with a small light stain to spine heel. Internally clean with light toning to pages.
Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
E.E.Cummings. The Enormous Room. Boni and Liveright, 1922.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Brown Boards Without Wear. First Edition 1922.First Issue Shit Not Cross Out P219. Beautiful Copy Of This Classic.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. The Enormous Room. Boni and Liveright, New York, NY, 1922.
Price: US$399.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition, First Issue (without the "cancel" on page 219), 1922. Tightly bound in gold cloth with black titles. A "good only" copy due to general soiling and age-darkening to the binding with one corner rubbed through and a small 1/8" hole to the cloth of the front cover. The contents show a very few small spots/smudges in the margins only. No dust jacket. Insured domestic Priority Mail and international shipping may require added postage charges.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
E. E. Cummings. The Enormous Room. Boni And Liverwright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Brown/Black Cloth Slight Foxing Fep. First Issue With "Shit" On Pg. 219. 271 Pgs. A Classic.
Seller: Open Door Books MABA, Bath, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$424.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing, First State (with "Shit!" uncensored on final line of p. 219), of the poet's first novel, an account of his imprisonment in a French military detention center during the First World War. Crown 8vo (199 x 135mm): [2],viii,9-271,[1]pp. Publisher's coarse tan cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed. Neat manuscript ex-libris and bookseller's ticket (Old Corner Book Store, Boston) to front fly leaf. Wanting the rare dust jacket. Faint foxing to upper edge of text block, slight discoloration to fore-edge of boards, but a superior example, tightly bound (lightly read, if at all) and clean throughout. Firmage A2a. On T. E. Lawrence's recommendation, the book was reprinted in 1927, and a London edition, with preface by Robert Graves, appeared in 1928. "Loosely modelled around John Bunyan's allegorical narrative The Pilgrim's Progress, Cummings' text presents the story of his arrest, imprisonment and release as a journey towards perception. Through a mixture of reportage, poetic prose, interjections in French and line drawings [in later editions], Cummings creates a series of studies of his captors and fellow inmates, revealing his contempt for cruelty and authority, and his irrepressible delight in the variety of human nature. . . . With its sharp assessment of national prejudices and social superficialities, it does not always make comfortable reading . . . That is why it is a classic." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. The Enormous Room. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing first issue with expletive 'shit' not censored at the bottom of page 219. Very Good, with cloth lightly edge worn, darkened and lightly scuffed at spine. Previous owner details to front paste down and bookseller ticket to rear paste down; pages toned.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. The Enormous Room.. New York Boni and Liveright ( ), 1922.
Price: US$551.03 + shipping
Description: 271 pp. Original cloth with dust jacket. First Edition, first issue (with "Shit" in last line of p. 219). - Fore edges and foot edges untrimmed. Paper few browned. Minor soiling to binding. Poor Jacket with some missing parts and taped tears. Gewicht (Gramm): 628
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Cummings, E. E.. The Enormous Room. Boni & Liveright, 1922.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine condition. Dust jacket spine gone, wear on edges, *not* price clipped. DJ in archival cover.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
E. E. Cummings. The Enormous Room. Boni & Liveright, 1922.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Enormous Room by E. E. Cumming. First edition in its very first state with the uncensored word shit on page 219, which was later removed. Signed by Cummings and coming from the estate of James Laughlin, founder and publisher of New Directions! The book was purchased from an ABAA Accredited dealer in CT where Laughlin made his home and where he passed away. . Cummings s first novel was written as a semi autobiographical recount of his time spent as a POW in WWI. An absolutely fabulous piece of history with the Laughlin connection as well as the fact that Cummings s biographer said there were less than 2000 of these first state copies printed! . Book in about NF condition with some foxing and aging. Spine ends lightly bumped text block showing soiling but overall Laughlin took very good care of this beautiful and quite uncommon first printing. The jacket is a facsimile reprint and on there for presentation and protection purposes. . Boni & Liveright 1922 . #theenormousroom #eecummings #jameslaughlin #newdirections #newdirectionspublishing #bookstagram #bookish #bookshop #bookstore #books4ewe #bibliophile #biblio #bookcollector #bookcollection #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #instabook #booksbooksbooks #igbooks #yorksc #yorkcounty #charlottenc #charlottenc #rarebooks #signedbooks #modernfirsteditions #booksforsale
Seller: Books 4 Ewe, York, SC, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. The Enormous Room. Boni and Liveright, 1922.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. This is the TRUE First edition, First Issue with "Shit!" printed on the last line, p.219. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition with a beautiful facsimile dustjacket from the original. We buy E.E. Cummings First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. The Enormous Room. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$4800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, first issue with expletive 'shit' not censored at the bottom of page 219. Signed by E. E. Cummings on the front free endpaper. From the library of author Larry McMurtry with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Bound in publisher's original ochre cloth stamped in black. Very Good with light soiling to cloth, light worming to top of textblock edge, pages tanned.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Cummings, E.E.. The Enormous Room. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1922.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 271pp. Tan buckram. Black lettering on the spine. Author signature in black ink on the front free endpaper. Offsetting to the front and rear endpapers, otherwise a near fine, unmarked copy. (The word "shit" is present on page 219, indicating a first edition, first state. The pictorial dust jacket front panel is present with significant chips along the extremities. 1/4 of the jacket spine is there, the flaps are present (one side of the front flap is taped to the front pastedown, the rear flap is detached from the rear panel, which has 2" chip on the upper edge. in mylar sleeve. Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. The Enormous Room. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state with "shit" present on p. 219. Association copy, signed and inscribed by Cummings to editor Malcolm Cowley on front free endpaper: "To Malcolm Cowley / (qui?) / E. E. Cummings." Publisher's mustard yellow cloth, lettered in black. Very good book with light toning to spine and pages, light rubbing to spine and tail edge of boards and text block, previous owners bookplate (book collector H. Bradley Martin) to front pastedown. Overall, an attractive copy with an excellent association. The Enormous Room is an autobiographical novel that details E.E. Cummings' time in a French prison during World War I. Serving as an ambulance driver, Cummings and his friend William Slater Brown, named "B" in the book, expressed anti-war sentiments while they were enlisted. Cummings himself proclaimed to have had no ill will towards the Germans they were fighting against. The pair also preferred the company of the French to their American peers; this behavior garnered negative attention and landed the two in prison under suspicion of espionage. The book describes their time imprisoned in an "enormous room" with thirty other people. The title refers to both the physical space Cummings was held captive in and the place in his mind where his memories of the event live. This copy is inscribed by E. E. Cummings to Malcolm Cowley, an important editor and literary critic; both men are strongly associated with the group of World War I-influenced American writers known as the Lost Generation. Cowley attended Harvard with Cummings in the 1910s, and they continued their relationship in Paris during the 1920s, frequenting the same expatriate literary circles. Cowleys documentation of the Lost Generation, Exiles Return: A Narrative of Ideas, has been called "an irreplaceable literary record of the most dramatic period in American literary history." In his lengthy career, Cowley also helped resuscitate the popularity of William Faulkner with The Portable Faulkner, and he championed Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, and John Cheever early in their careers.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$7057.96 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The First USA printing published by Boni & Liveright, New York in 1922. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. The first state with the word 'shit' uncancelled on p. 219 and original publisher's tan buckram. Mild offsetting of the wrapper flaps to the blank end papers. Light toning to the text block but the pages remain clean. Frederick Baldwin Adams Jnr.'s bookplate (designed by Rockwell Kent) to the front pastedown (Adams Jnr. had been a former President of the Morgan Library and had served also as President of the 'Association Internationale de Bibliophile', the most prestigious organisation of bibliophiles in the world). The original WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ condition. It is the correct first issue bearing the price of $2 to the spine and the 'Of Vocations' title description on the rear cover is priced at $2. The wrapper is notoriously fragile and brittle and this wrapper has benefitted from some expert professional Japanese tissue repairs to the verso which do not show through to the front. Some loss to the spine ends, corners and a little to the upper edges - see images. The wrapper looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been signed (without dedication) by the author to the upper front blank end-paper. Kennedy, Cummings' biographer, says less than 2,000 copies of this debut title were published. Very scarce with no records of a copy with such attributes appearing at auction in the last 15years. Cummings' first separately published book and one of the lasting accounts to come out of WW1. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom