NY, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1940). Third printing. Inscribed by Cummings in 1953 to David Perkins. Also signed by Marion Moorehouse, to whom this volume is dedicated. Perkins is a literary historian and a scholar of poetry, best-known for his two-volume History of Modern Poetry, published by Harvard University Press in 1987 and considered the landmark book in its field. Pencilled notes on rear free endpaper, presumably those of Perkins; spot and bump to foredge; else near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with some spotting to the spine and chipped to the crown. Overall quite an attractive copy and a significant literary association copy. [#022892] SOLD

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