The Enormous Room: A Typescript Edition with Drawings by the Author

New York: Liveright, 1978. Third Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (21.75cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; xxvi,275,[3]pp; illus. Foxing to right edge of textblock, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is priced $12.95, with the lower corner of front flap clipped, and light wear to crown; Near Fine. The poet's first novel, and one of the great books to emerge after the First World War. "An excellently written narrative of a man held in a huge camp for those suspected of being spies and traitors. The prison was an "enormous room," the nave of an old church. Realistic and subtle analysis of a kind (truncated) of Pilgrim's Progress through shock and horror" (COAN, p.123). This is a new, authoritative edition by Liveright, based on three corrected copies of the complete manuscript, as well as Cummings's original notes and drafts, and 61 contemporary drawings he made of the people, places, and events he describes in the book. Edited and with an afterword by George James Firmage. HANNA 861. (Inventory #: 61458)