Eimi
by E E Cummings
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-144: Covici Friede Inc.. Good. 1933. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Covici Friede Inc Publishers, New York. 1933. 432 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Number 403 of 1381 signed limited copies. Signed by E. E. Cummings on the limitation page. Bound in yellow cloth boards with black titles present to the spine and the front board. No ownership marks present. Endpapers have light soil present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. While sometimes termed a "novel," it is better described as a novelistic travelogue, the diary of a trip to Russia in the 1930s during the rise of the Stalinist government. Despite some contempt for what he witnesses, Cummings's narrator has an effective, occasionally hilarious way of evoking feelings of accord and understanding. As Ezra Pound wrote, Cummings's Soviet Union is laid "out there pellucidly on the page in all its Slavic unfinishedness, in all of its Dostoievskian slobberyness....Does any man wish to know about Russia? 'EIMI'!" A stylistic tour de force, EIMI is a mélange of styles and tones, the prose containing many abbreviations, grammatical and syntactical shifts, typographical devices, compounds, and word coinages. This is Cummings's invigorating and unique voice at its finest, and EIMI is without question one of his most substantial accomplishments. E-144; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 432 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64847
- Title
- Eimi
- Author
- E E Cummings
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Covici Friede Inc.
- Place of Publication
- E-144
- Date Published
- 1933
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