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e.e. cummings. Him. Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First thus. Fading to spine, some tanning to boards. No jacket. Pages clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
cummings, e.e.. Him. Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. e.e. cummings's play was an important precursor to the Theatre of the Absurd. A reviewer wrote, In the play, "Cummings attempted to include the unconscious thoughts of its two principal characters, Him, a playwright, and Me, his girlfriend. The plunge into the unconscious was represented by a series of vaudeville skits and circus acts, so that Cummings's jokes and verbal nonsense made for a highly entertaining but not very coherent work." Illustrated paper over boards, black cloth-backed. Title gilt-stamped to spine, lightly scuffed. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. 145 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. Him, A Play. Boni and Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$24.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1927 Liveright 1st edition, NO DUSTJACKET, black boards has wear at heel of spine, lettering on spine gone, scratch on cover, a few very small stains, sound binding, bookplate on pastedown, tanning at edges of textblock- reads fine.
Seller: The Oregon Room - Well described books!, Phoenix, OR, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E E. HIM, first edition. Boni & Liveright NY, 1927.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: JS:OF: The near fine copy of Cumming's sixth book,in in white paper over boards with black cloth spine, red titles, is clean tight and bright. There's a severe wrinkle on the second to last rear end paper, a slight smudge on the front cover edge. 145 pages, a neat clean collectible copy.
Seller: Aamstar Bookshop / Hooked On Books, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Cummings, e. e.. Him. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 160 copies published. Octavo, half black cloth over illustrated white paper boards, with gilt lettering on spine. Cummings' first play, considered an early absurdist work. Very good, with sun fade to spine, dusty top edge, no dust jacket.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Cummings, E.E.. Him. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 145 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original black cloth, gilt spine. Spine a bit dulles, light wear to extremities
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. HIM. New York:Boni and Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York:Boni and Liveright. 1927. 1st edition after limited edition. 145pp. Hardcover. Beige boards lightly soiled with spine strip soiled and sun-faded with red print dulled. Cover edges wornn to boards in places. Internally a few bookseller notes to top of 1st free end-page, but otherwise free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact. Overall a very good, clean copy.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E. E.. Him. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$90.18 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: DESCRIPTION: Black cloth spine with line drawing illustrated paper covered boards. Red titles to spine. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners, edges and creased spine ends. Tightly bound. Prev owners name to ffep " Elisabeth Cook" see provenance. Lightly toned pages with a few very minor marks to extreme page edges from spotted text block edge DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 145. Size: 8vo 21cm by 14cm. PROVENANCE: Elisabeth Cook. Elisabeth Cook ( - 1967)Daughter of Dr. William Alexander Cook. Married Colin Leiter Campbell and subsequently Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. , son of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, 4th Bt. and Elfrida Roosevelt, in 1938. Sir Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke, 6th Bt. (1939 - 2019). Son of Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. and Elisabeth Cook. Married Charlotte Walter, daughter of Roderick Walter in 1971 and later married Teresa Lorraine Aphrodite de Chair, daughter of Somerset Struben de Chair and Margaret Patricia Field-Hart, in 1984. Named Charles Mansfield Clarke at birth he changed his name to Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke in 1962. Educated at Eton, Christ Church, Sorbonne and Graduate Business School, New York University. He succeeded as the 6th Baronet Clarke, of Dunham Lodge in 1973. Offices held: Vice-president of the London branch of Bankers Trust Company of New York, editor and founder of The Baronets Journal, Associate director of the Swiss Bank Corporation London and chairman of the Standing Council of the Baronetage. Through his grandmother, Elfrida Roosevelt (Lady Clarke, wife of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, Bt. CBE) he was related to U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt was his first cousin, three times removed. He was also the second cousin, three times removed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. (1906 - 1949). Son of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, 4th Bt. and Elfrida Roosevelt. Married, Frances Mary Powys Sketchley, daughter of Major Frederick Powys Sketchley, in 1931 (divorced in 1936). Married, Elisabeth Cook, daughter of Dr. William Alexander Cook, in 1938. Married Constance Elizabeth Gibbs, daughter of Herbert Gray Gibbs, 1947 (divorced in 1953). Educated at Eton and Christ Church. Served with the British Embassy to Washington between 1941 and 1944 and the Foreign Office between 1944 and 1946. Succeeded as the 5th Baronet Clarke, of Dunham Lodge 1949.
Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Cummings (E.E.).. Him. Boni & Liveright, New York,, 1927.
Price: US$94.69 + shipping
Description: Boards with some soiling and a little foxing, otherwise a nice copy; bookplate Original quarter cloth, illustration to upper cover
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
CUMMINGS, E.E.. Him. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Boards toned with chipping at edges, tiny tears at the crown, very good, lacking the dust jacket. Neat bookplate of C.T. Revere on front pastedown endpaper. Revere was the author of *Hands of Bands* published in 1932, a dramatic editor at *The Washington Post*, and contributor for the *New York Herald Tribune.* Also includes the signature of his daughter, actress Anne Revere on front flyleaf. Revere won an Academy and Tony Award and was blacklisted after her name appeared in the anti-Communist document *Red Channels.*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
E.E. Cummings. Him. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: The 1927 1st trade edition. VG- in its duotone cloth, with light wear at the spine ends, light fading along the spine and a bit of soiling to the rear panel. Octavo, 145 pgs.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Cummings, E.E.. HIM. New York, Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, two-toned cloth, black spine with title in red, some spine end wear, a bit dull but V.G.(VV2/3)
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E. Him Cummings, E. E. Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1927 Liveright hard cover - 1st edition - no dust jacket - wear to text on binding - slight staining to page edge - otherwise cover fine binidng strong contents clean - a very nice collectible
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. Him: a Play. Boni & Liveright, NY, 1927.
Price: US$149.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cloth-backed boards. First edition. Slight toning/soil, bottom edge rubbed through at points. Unmarked, tight and square. The DJ in mylar is split into two pieces at front gutter, chipped and edgeworn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E.E.. Him. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (21cm.); original cloth-backed boards in black decorative price-clipped dust jacket designed by Samuel B. Schaeffer; [4],145pp. Jacket rather substantially restored, front flap fold splitting along bottom two-thirds. Fine in Good or better jacket. The first of four plays by the poet, first produced in 1928 by the Provincetown Players in New York.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. Him, A Play. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first American trade edition of this work, dramatizing an imaginary conversation between playwright and audience. Published by Boni and Liveright in 1927. A near fine example of the book with a bit of dulling to the base of spine. Price clipped dust jacket very good with chipping along the edges and an inch and a half inch tall section of paper loss from the base of the spine. Much shorter piece absent from the head, roughly half an inch. Not particularly common in dust jacket.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
cummings, e.e.. Him: A Play by e.e. cummins. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: DJ in archival cover.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. HIM. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 145 pages; G+/G; spine black and white, with white label with black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; ex-library, with usual marks; some shelf wear and soiling; corners bumped; large chips missing at upper corners of flap folds; inch-long closed tear at lower right corner of jacket front; long chip missing at crown of jacket spine; a third of jacket spine missing; small chips missing at upper edge of jacket back; multiple small closed tears at lower edge of jacket back; wear to jacket joints; some age-toning to jacket overall; price uncut '$2.50'; upper edge of textblock dyed gray; pages clean; shelved Case 0. 1354959. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. Him. A Play.. New York Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$220.98 + shipping
Description: 145 pp. Original half cloth with dust jacket. First Edition. - Uncut. Unclipped jacket with some edgewear with short chips and tears, specially at the ends of spine. Gewicht (Gramm): 404
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Cummings, E. E.. HIM, A Play By E. E. Cummings. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 145 pages. Pages clean, good condition. Previous owner's name at top of ffep, otherwise endpapers clean. Black cloth spine over white boards. Gilt title on spine. Upper cover illustrated with black line drawing with border. Edges very lightly soiled and worn. Corners bumped and worn. Dust jacket is torn and soiled at edges. Head of spine and bottom half of spine of DJ including some of the upper cover torn out. DJ not price clipped. DJ in protective cover. GOOD+/Poor+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Cummings, E. E.. Him: A Play (First Edition | Not Poetry). Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$279.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION (after the signed limited edition). Original quarter black cloth with red lettering on the spine. Front cover has uneven discoloration and edgewear at the bottom. jacket has an inche chip at the top and another at the bottom of the spine. At the top of the front panel is a triangular chip. Modest wear to jacket elsewhere. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a GOOD book in a FAIR dust jacket. Photos available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E.E.. Him. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, trade issue. Small ink name dated 1929 on front flyleaf, slight oiling on the boards, near fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with shallow loss at the spine and a few nicks and short tears.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
cummings, e.e.. HIM.. Boni & Liveright: NY, 1927.
Price: US$454.25 + shipping
Description: 8.5 x 5.5, half vellum, gilt decorated black cloth, 145 pp, covers a bit worn, vellum spotted, spine printing worn, page edge browned, a few thumb marks to text else a decent copy with pages unopened. LIMITED TO 160 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY AUTHOR E.E. CUMMINGS.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
e e cummings. HIM. Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$649.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #86 and signed by e e cummings.Hardcover
Seller: San Marco Bookstore, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
E E Cummings. Him. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: a rare signed 1st edition, trade 1st in dust jacket, in the original 1/2 black cloth and cream pictorial boards drawn and designed by EE, with the original price on the flap, 1st issue, and the sub title being An Imaginary dialogue between an author and his public. very fine book, with a big chip on the tip of the dj, else the dj is fine, with full flaps and so little wear, the chip can be repaired and then the jacket would be very handsome, overall a rare item. Signed by EE on the title page, there was a limited edition of 160 isssued signed as well. this books are now all accounted for.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E. E.. Him.. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed limited issue, number 147 of 160 copies signed by Cummings on the limitation page. Cummings's play was an important precursor to the Theatre of the Absurd. In the play, "Cummings attempted to include the unconscious thoughts of its two principal characters, Him, a playwright, and Me, his girlfriend. The plunge into the unconscious was represented by a series of vaudeville skits and circus acts, so that Cummings's jokes and verbal nonsense made for a highly entertaining but not very coherent work" (ANB). Octavo. Original half vellum and black paper-covered boards, titles in black to spine, decorations in gilt to front cover. With original glassine. Title printed in red and black. Spine soiled, else binding firm with contents almost entirely unopened, glassine somewhat chipped but still in nice shape; an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom