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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, 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.
Price: US$7106.95 + 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