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Cummings, e.e. 1st. ed.20 full page colored paintings by Nancy. fine-v.g.d.j.little frayed at top. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. A fine, interesting collage of creativity by the daughter of e.e. cummings, assembled by Nancy Cummings de Foret, including the final eight poems of her beloved father. Trade paperback format, stated First Edition, and with eight unpublished, the final eight poems by him. Cover art by Alexis Orr and with a range of lovely, full-page, full-color illustrations. Photo of the author at rear panel, through a window. 125 [12] pp. Michael Webster's memorial to the author appeared in 2006, including:"Cummings' daughter, Nancy Thayer Andrews, died on August 11, 2006. At the time of her birth on December 20, 1919 and for a year and half afterwards, Nancy?s mother Elaine Thayer was legally married to Scofield Thayer (1889-1982), Cummings' friend, mentor, and patron. Thayer?s first commission was for Cummings to write ?Epithalamion? (CP 3-7), a poem celebrating Thayer's marriage to Elaine in 1916. The course of Nancy's life was in many ways determined by the somewhat unusual circumstances of her birth and by the vicissitudes of her mother and father's romance, marriage, and divorce. Until Cummings married Elaine in March 1924, Nancy lived apart from her father at 3 Washington Square, New York and various residences in France. Scofield Thayer did not live with Elaine either, maintaining his residence at 80 Washington Square. Cummings and Elaine lived apart for a variety of reasons: she could afford much more luxurious digs than he could, and he did not want to live off her (and by extension, Thayer). Also, though he loved his daughter, Cummings was both not quite ready and not quite able to be a family man. The cover art by Alexis Orr features a very strange drawing of a swan. It has a tapered, vortex-like pole that runs vertically right through its middle. The beak of the swan turns back to face what appears to be a barely-outlined figure of a baby or toddler and who appears to be riding on the swan's back and that is being protected the swan's upturned wings. The swan affects a merry-go-round. "l'amor du cygne" (the love of the swan?) trails from the tip of the scepter. Following the final day that father spent with daughter, e.e. cummings wrote in his journal, "goodbye dear & next time when I feel a little better we'll ride the donkeys and next time the pigs maybe or you will a bicycle and i will ride a swan & next time when my heart is all mended again with snow repainted with bright new paint we'll ride you and I. She wanted to ride the swan."Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. 8vo. Pp: [xxii], xxviii, 125, [4]. First edition. Black and white dust jacket with red and black lettering, colour illustration at front and black and white illustration at rear. Publisher's black boards with gilt at spine. Colour and black and white illustrations and two pages of sheet music throughout. Nine previously unpublished poems by E. E. Cummings from page xvii to page xxiii. ISBN: 0871406284 Very good minus in very good minus dust jacket. Foxing at front and rear end papers and at text block edges. Some toning at rear inner flap of dust jacket. Small piece of tape applied at inner top corner of front inner flap of dust jacket. Minor edgewear at top and bottom edges of dust jacket.