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Sale 318: Modern Literature (#318) 09/29/2005 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 09/29/2005 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #75 W (Viva)

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$187.50

Estimate: $200 - $300

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Description

Title:

W (Viva)

Author:

Cummings, E.E.

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Horace Liveright

Date Published:

1931

Description:

11¾x7¼, coarse and woven "monk's" cream cloth-backed tan boards, "W" and publisher's initials stamped within a 1" brown background square to upper spine, silver-foil coated jacket lettered in black. First Trade Edition, review copy.

Review copy with publisher's printed review slip and publicity photograph from a self-portrait painting by Cummings, laid in. Firmage A11.a.

Condition:

Short tears and chips to jacket edges, diagonal crease to front panel; slight offsetting to front board (from jacket printing impression), darkening to edges; internally intact, else a clean and bright copy; near fine in a very good and scarce jacket.

Item#:

165191
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