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Europa Press, London, 1938. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. 1st printing. 8vo in dark green cloth, yellow lettering to spine, 78pp on thick paper, frontispiece on glossy art paper. This is number 104 of a total of 500 copies made __CONDITION : A well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (pages slightly tanned, hint of dustiness to cover bottom edges). __NOTE. Depending on destination, this item may require an extra payment for shipping insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved the extra cost... __To see more of our Poetry books type DbbPOETRY in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS

Norfolk, Conn: New Directions, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, American issue using sheets from the Europa first edition, with tipped-in title page as issued. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Frontispiece by Pavel Tchelitchew. Octavo. 78pp. Dark green cloth. Rear flyleaf has a thirteen-line poem in pencil holograph in an unknown hand, near fine in very good or better dust jacket evenly toned with small nicks on the spine.

London: Europa Press, 1938. First. hardcover. fine/very good(+). Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Frontispiece by Pavel Tchelitchew. Thin 8vo, green cloth, d.w. London: Europa Press, (1938). Limited First Edition.<br/> <br/> Presentation copy, signed, Oct. 1938. To--- from their known and unknown admirer, Charlie Ford." Fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper, sunned on the spine, and with a small chip on the front cover.<br/> <br/>

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions,, [1938]. Inscribed to the Lenin of the Surrealist Revolution First US edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "à André Breton, Lenine de la revolution surréaliste, avec tout ma sympathie, Charles Henri Ford, 2 avril 1939." This, Ford's first full-length book of poetry, was a gift to Breton early in their friendship, marking the beginning of the surrealists' competitive friendship. Ford recounted the occasion of this presentation in a letter to author Parker Tyler on 5 April 1939: "Breton I find very sympathetic, I gave him my Garden of Disorder with dedication to André Breton, Lenine de la Revolutuion Surrealiste and just finished reading his Les Vases Communicants, and have bought other of his books. I find I have been underestimating him all along, (though not the accomplishments of the surrealist painters), through not having read his works. I'm lunching Friday with him and will take photos" (quoted in Howard, p. 110).… Read More