Cummings, E.e. (1894-1962). The Enormous Room. New York: Boni And Liveright, 1922. Auction
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CUMMINGS, e.e. (1894-1962). The Enormous Room. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.
CUMMINGS, e.e. (1894-1962). The Enormous Room. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.
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CUMMINGS, e.e. (1894-1962). The Enormous Room. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.

8vo. Original light brown cloth lettered in black on cover and spine, uncut; in unclipped dust jacket (spine and flap folds sunned, light chipping at extreme ends, old tape repairs on verso); cloth chemise and slipcase. Provenance: Bernice (presentation inscription from Marion Morehouse).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST WORK, with p.219 in the uncorrected state.

SIGNED BY CUMMINGS below a gift inscription from his second wife Marion Morehouse. e. e. Cummings' autobiographical first novel is based on his experiences as an enlistee with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France, where he openly expressed anti-war views. He was arrested and held by the French military on suspicion of espionage for three and a half months. Of Cummings' first novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives — ”The Enormous Room by e. e. cummings...Those few who cause books to live have not been able to endure the thought of its mortality." Firmage A1.
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CUMMINGS, e.e. (1894-1962). The Enormous Room. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.

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