CUMMINGS, E. E.. 50 Poems. Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1940), N. Y., 1940.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo, original cloth, printed label on front cover, glassine dust jacket, publisher's slipcase. Some offsetting to endpapers as usual, otherwise a fine copy in slightly sunned and chipped glassine dust jacket, in a lightly dust-soiled slipcase. Some offsetting to endpapers as usual, otherwise a fine copy in slightly sunned and chipped glassine dust jacket, in a lightly dust-soiled slipcase First edition, limited issue, of one of Cummings' finest collections. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the poet. Firmage A18a. 50 Poems contains the first appearances of several of Cummings' most famous poems, including "anyone lived in a pretty how town", "my father moved through dooms of love", "love is the every only god" and "love is more thicker than forget".

Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.

Cummings, E. E.. 50 Poems. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First trade edition, first printing. Signed by the poet on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original pale orange cloth stamped in maroon, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to cloth at spine,wear at spine ends and corners, pages toned.

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