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Description: FIRST TRADE EDITION, MARION MOREHOUSE PHOTOGRAPH of CUMMINGS laid in. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in white. Pushing to spine ends, edges tanned, scant spotting to leading edge. Foxing and offsetting to feps, from obituary clipping (Cyril Connolly's 'On the Death of a Poet,' Sunday Times), laid in. Black and white matt photographic portrait of cummings (16.4 x 12cm) also laid in: pin hole to bottom left corner. Else, clean and tight. In the original monochrome dust jacket, featuring Morehouse's portrait of cummings (another in the series) to rear panel: spine toned, edgewear, creasing and nicking, spine ends chipped, two closed tears, foxed to rear. Very good/ good Unusual with one of Morehouse's portraits of Cummings laid in, which is rare itself. Model, actor and photographer, Marion Morehouse (1903-1969) was cummings' third wife; they married in 1934. Frequently described as "the first supermodel", she worked with the fashion photographers Edward Steichen, Cecil Beaton, and Baron George Hoyningen-Huene and appeared in Vogue and Vanity Fair. After her modelling career ended, Morehouse took up photography, tutored by Steichen, and had a studio in New York; indeed, her income was important for their household following cummings' mother's death, when his amall annual stipend ended. Both the laid-in photograph and the photograph of cummings on the dust jacket are part of a series of frank portraits of her husband. The image-making was reciprocal, with cummings often painting his wife. Comprising the text of six Charles Eliot Norton "nonlectures," which cummings gave at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, during the autumn of 1952 and the following spring. A signed, limited first edition of 350 copies was issued in the same year.
Seller: Quair Books PBFA, Leeds, United Kingdom
Cummings, E.E.. Six Nonlectures. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1953.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Slim 8vo. [11], 3-118, [2] pp. Quarter white cloth over black cloth with a black 'i' on the spine. Price of $6.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed by Cummings on the limitation page, number 5 of 350 copies produced. These lectures were delivered in the Sanders Theatre at Harvard University. ANB, Richard S. Kennedy, "Cummings, E. E. (14 October 1894-03 September 1962)". E.E. Cummings led a turbulent but artistically productive life, with numerous published writings, and completed sculptures and portraits. At the end of his life he became an extremely popular performer of live poetry. This book is a record of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures. The writings in this volume are autobiographical, and they shed a light on his childhood and his artistic development. Minor toning to the front endpaper and rear pastedown; jacket has traces of foxing on its reverse and a few spots of edge wear.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E. E. I: SIX NONLECTURES. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1953.
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Description: The Trade Edition of these lectures containing much poetry INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by the poet to author Fritz Peters: "A Merry Xmas/+/Happy New Year/to/Fritz Peters/from/Marion + EEC/4 Patchen Place 1953." Scarce to find genuine Cummings inscriptions. Fritz Peters at the age of 11 became the personal caretaker for the mystic philosopher Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. As an adult he wrote novels based on his own experiences with nervous breakdowns, alcoholism, a broken marriage, and homosexuality, as well as a memoir titled BOYHOOD WITH GURDJIEFF. Mild staining to cloth. Very Good in a Fair dustwrapper with much loss at the top rear and spine tips
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E. E. I: SIX NONLECTURES. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1953.
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Description: Copy #31 of 350 of these lectures containing much poetry SIGNED by the poet on the limitation page. In addition this copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper: "inscribed (on behalf of/Burton L. Stratton)/for Allen Jefferson by/E. E. Cummings/March 4, 1954." Stratton is credited as the book's typography designer on the copyright page. Fine, bright copy lacking the uncommon dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
CUMMINGS, E.E.. i: Six Nonlectures. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1953.
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Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with modest overall wear. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Cummings, E. E.. i: Six Nonlectures. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1953.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, limited issue. Copy number 113 of a limited 350 signed by E.E. Cummings. Bound in publisher's original black cloth over ivory spine cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with toning to pages and slightly so to spine cloth. In a Near Fine unclipped correct limited edition dust jacket, which is lightly rubbed, lightly edge worn and spine toned, with a few indentations to the surface. Six lectures, often provocative and brilliant, delivered Cummings at Harvard University.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.