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The Enormous Room

Lot 343
26.05.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 2 520
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 752968
Lot 343 | The Enormous Room
Estimate value
$ 1 000 – 1 500
The Enormous Roome.e. cummings, 1922.CUMMINGS, E. E. (1894-1962). The Enormous Room. New York. 1922. First edition of Cummings first book, a presentation copy for Malcolm Cowley. The first edition has the word "shit" un-censored on p.219. Cummings' autobiographical novel concerns his time as a World War One POW in France. Cummings has inscribed and signed this copy on the front free endpaper: "for Malcolm Cowley / (qui?) / E.E. Cummings." At the time of publication, both Cummings and Cowley were living in Paris, epitomizing the "Lost Generation."Octavo. Original cloth (spine darkened, rubbed along edges). Provenance: Malcolm Cowley, 1898-1989, American writer and critic (presentation inscription) – H. Bradley Martin (bookplate, his sale, Sotheby's New York, 30 January 1990, lot 2023).
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