CUMMINGS, E.E.. [No title.]. Covici Friede, New York., 1930.

Price: US$448.97 + shipping

Description: First edition. Folio. 63 pages. Illustrated with eight full-page drawings by the author and a frontispiece non-drawing. Rebacked with quarter brown morocco, new endpapers, retaining original cloth boards with silver (non) title-panel on front. Surrealistic prose pieces. As the author explains in the introductory ''dialogue'', ''The title is inframicroscopic - the frontispiece is extratelescopic - the pictures are superstereoscopic - the meaning is postultraviolet - the format is preautoerogenous.''One of 491 copies signed by the author.Small chip to one bottom edge of one leaf. Covers generally worn, dusty and marked. Text block slightly bumped at bottom corner. Good only. Internally very good. Not the greatest copy, but unarguably scarce.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Cummings, E. E. [No Title]. [An Imaginary Dialogue Between Almost Any Publisher and a Certain Author A.D. 1930].. Covici Friede Publishers, New York, 1930.

Price: US$975.00 + shipping

Description: First edition and signed limited edition of Cumming's cleverly titled untitled work. Quarto, original cloth stamped in silver, illustrated with 8 full-page drawings by the author. One of 491 copies signed by the author on the colophon, this is number 144. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Small bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent. One of the more elusive Cummings titles. Widely regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century, American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright E. E. Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays throughout the course of his lifetime. Associated with modernist free-form poetry, much of his work has idiosyncratic syntax and uses lower-case spellings for poetic expression.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Cummings, E. E.. [No Title]. [An Imaginary Dialogue Between Almost Any Publisher and a Certain Author A.D. 1930]. Covici Friede Publishers, New York, 1930.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, signed limited issue. Copy number 75 of 491 signed by E. E. Cummings. Very Good with cloth a little soiled and worn at the tips, front and rear inner hinges slightly exposed. Pages lightly thumbed, stray pencil mark to recto of rear free endpaper and bookseller ticket to rear paste down.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.