CUMMINGS, E. E.

£675 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Poems 1905-1962. First Typewriter edition, number 141 of 225 copies, here inscribed by the editor to Cummings's friend and French translator on the front free endpaper, "For D. Jon Grossman, who suggested I type out the poems... with thanks and much appreciation always, G. Firmage, December 1978".David Jonathan 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.

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