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I: SIX NONLECTURES
by CUMMINGS, E. E
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Mild staining to cloth. Very Good in a Fair dustwrapper with much loss at the top rear and spine tips
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Mild staining to cloth. Very Good in a Fair dustwrapper with much loss at the top rear and spine tips. The Trade Edition of these lectures containing much poetry INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by the poet to author Fritz Peters: "A Merry Xmas/+/Happy New Year/to/Fritz Peters/from/Marion + EEC/4 Patchen Place 1953." Scarce to find genuine Cummings inscriptions.
Fritz Peters at the age of 11 became the personal caretaker for the mystic philosopher Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. As an adult he wrote novels based on his own experiences with nervous breakdowns, alcoholism, a broken marriage, and homosexuality, as well as a memoir titled BOYHOOD WITH GURDJIEFF.
Fritz Peters at the age of 11 became the personal caretaker for the mystic philosopher Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. As an adult he wrote novels based on his own experiences with nervous breakdowns, alcoholism, a broken marriage, and homosexuality, as well as a memoir titled BOYHOOD WITH GURDJIEFF.
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- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016197
- Title
- I: SIX NONLECTURES
- Author
- CUMMINGS, E. E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Mild staining to cloth. Very Good in a Fair dustwrapper with much loss at the top rear and spine tips
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Signed, E. E. Cummings, Modern Firsts, 20th Century American Literature, Inscribed, Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry, Gurdjieff, Gay Literature
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Charles Agvent
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