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CUNARD, Nancy. PARALLAX. The Hogarth Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. First Edition. Hogarth Press, PARALLAX by Nancy Cunard. Published April 1925 with only 420 copies printed. Size: Octavo - 5 5/8" x 8 3/4" tall 24 pp. A copy bound in white boards and printed in black with the dynamic linear cover design by Eugene McCown. Virginia Woolf set the type on this issue as well as named the book according to " The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume II p.320" *Woolner 57 Nancy Cunard, has been romantically associated with Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Some say she was written as Fresca in The Waste Land from the early drafts of Eliot's 1922 poem. Showing some overall light use on the cover as per the photos but overall an important and lovely copy.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Nancy Cunard. Parallax. The Hogarth Press, 1925.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing of Cunard's most important early work, a quintessentially modernist book-length poem that functions as a sustained look and critique of Eliot, referring to and toying with Eliot's pessimistic and bleak worldview, with multiple references, metaphors, and layers upon layers of meaning. Published by The Hogarth Press in a limitation of 420 copies, apparently Virginia Woolf chose the title for this poem, as well as setting the type herself (Woolmer). When it was released, critics assumed she had simply plagiarized Eliot and "driven by this hostile barrage, she began an expatriate life in Paris and a long career as an activist intellectual by joining the surrealists" (Oxford DNB). London: The Hogarth Press, 1925. Publisher's original printed boards, cover designs by Eugene McCown; uncut, pp. 24. In very good condition, minimal shelfwear, light rubbing and dust-soiling to boards, internally clean and fine. Scarce.
Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Cunard, Nancy. Parallax. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: One of 420 copies hand-printed by the Woolfs. Boards rubbed and chipped, some bumping to corners and edges, spine and board edges tanned/discoloured, some light staining to rear board. Occasional foxing, else contents clean and tidy. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 24 pages. 420 copies were printed. Original paper boards with line drawings on both panels by Eugene McCown. A poem. Pages unopened.Some light discoloration and spotting to the boards. Very good, internally fine. Scarce in presentable condition.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Cunard, Nancy. Parallax. The Hogarth Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original illustrated boards. Very Good with covers soiled and toned, lightly worn at extremities. Tanning to pages. Scarce in presentable condition.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1017.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Original illustrated boards. 24pp. Illustrations by Eugene McCown. First edition, one of 420 copies hand-printed and published by the Woolfs at their home publishing firm in Tavistock Square, London. Owner's signature on front free endpaper, small contemporary bookseller's label to rear pastedown, covers lightly tanned, some scattered foxing; still a very good and extremely scarce title. From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), a wealthy young socialite and heir to the Cunard Line British shipping industry, traveled and mingled with the literary elite who included T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, Louis Aragon, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Langston Hughes, Man Ray, and William Carlos Williams, among other notables. In the 1920s Cunard was working at establishing herself as a poet. Parallax powerfully captured the pessimism of the modernist sensibility in the manner of the Modernist Long Poem, centering on the wanderings of a young male poet through London, Paris, and Italy as he contemplates love, friendship, and art. Cunard's work received harsh critical reception, an indication of some of the struggles faced by women poets in establishing themselves in the male-dominated high Modernist literary sphere. Her style was panned as romantic and old-fashioned by the arch-Modernist Ezra Pound (whom she later published at her Hours Press). Meanwhile, T. S. Eliot mocked her poetic aspirations; for her part, Cunard admired Eliot's work, and Parallax is indebted to The Waste Land. Parallax was not quite without its admirers altogether. A young Samuel Beckett, whose early work Cunard published, was a fan, and wrote to her enthusiastically about it. William Carlos Williams thought Cunard "one of the major phenomena of history," and the influential journalist Janet Flanner thought Parallax "superior" to The Waste Land. . WOOLMER 57. .
Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.