Illustrated with 8 full-page drawings by Cummings over a yellow background, plus frontispiece (no drawing but yellow background, as issued). 31.1x23.7 cm (12¼x9¼"), original gray cloth, front cover stamped in silver. Presented in custom blue cloth-covered clamshell box with morocco lettering piece on spine. No. 144 of an edition limited to 491 copies. First Edition. Signed by Cummings in the colophon. Cleverly titled without a title, but text begins: "An Imaginary Dialogue between ALMOST Any Publisher And A certain Author, A.D. 1930." Half-title before chapter one reads: "The Garden of Eden...before the dawn of history...". Firmage A9. Bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent with monogram ODD.
Illustrated with 8 full-page drawings by Cummings over a yellow background, plus frontispiece (no drawing but yellow background, as issued). 31.1x23.7 cm (12¼x9¼"), original gray cloth, front cover stamped in silver. Presented in custom blue cloth-covered clamshell box with morocco lettering piece on spine. No. 144 of an edition limited to 491 copies. First Edition. Signed by Cummings in the colophon. Cleverly titled without a title, but text begins: "An Imaginary Dialogue between ALMOST Any Publisher And A certain Author, A.D. 1930." Half-title before chapter one reads: "The Garden of Eden...before the dawn of history...". Firmage A9. Bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent with monogram ODD.
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