CUMMINGS, E. E.; EATON, John (illus.).

£300 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Fairy Tales. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator to Cummings's French translator, "To Jon Grossman from John Eaton", and with an original sketch by Eaton. Loosely inserted is a compliments card from the publisher and Marion Morehouse.David Jonathan Grossman (1922-1990) 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. According to Grossman this was the start of their correspondence proper. In 1947 he moved to Paris but maintained the friendship; throughout the following years he wrote to or visited Cummings in the US. 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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