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Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.

Contributor:

Golden Eagle Press.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

80 pages ; 20 x 15 cm

Edition:

Deluxe Edition.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [Published by The Golden Eagle Press for sale by subscription in the United States of America and abroad], [1935]

Notes:

Title from cover.

Text runs parallel to title on front cover.

"Copyright, MCMXXXV, by E. E. Cummings."

Published in three editions. "Holograph Edition. On Inomachi Japanese vellum. Limited to nine copies for sale. Numbered I-IX. Signed. De Luxe Edition. On Whitchurch English handmade paper. Limited to ninety copies for sale. Numbered 1-90. Signed. First Trade Edition. On Ricardi Japanese paper. Limited to nine hundred copies for sale. Not Numbered."

The book is dedicated to the 14 publishing houses who turned it down. The names of the publishers are arranged in the form of a funeral urn on the dedication page.

Number 44 is blank with "In holograph edition only" printed at the foot.

Blue cloth boards lettered in red on spine with title in red in the author's script. All edges stained red.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 62 signed by E. E. Cummings.

OCLC:

43078543