CUMMINGS, E. E.

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&. First edition, number 67 of 333 hand-numbered copies signed by the author. This copy is additionally signed on the front free endpaper and belonged to Cummings's friend and French translator, David Jonathan Grossman.Grossman (1922-1990) had first met Cummings whilst attending Peter Monro Jack's course at Columbia night school in 1941-42. After serving in the Second World War, Grossman attended Harvard in 1946 and began writing a thesis on Cummings, which he never finished. By 1960 he had published his first translation, and in 1980 he was awarded the Prix Halperine-Kaminsky for his Cummings translations. Grossman has pencilled an editorial note on page 17.This edition consists of 111 copies printed on Vidalon handmade paper and 222 copies printed on De Coverly Rag Laid.

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