8vo. Half-title. Original light brown cloth lettered in black on cover and spine, uncut (spine slightly soiled, slight rubbing to extremities); original pictorial dust jacket (restored with small areas of retouching, closed tear to front panel, a few small chips, small portion of front panel torn away but present). Provenance:  Barbieri & Price Ltd. and Books Old & New (booksellers' tickets to front and rear pastedowns); George Cosmatos (sold, his sale, Sotheby's, 2005, lot 163).

FIRST EDITION OF CUMMINGS' FIRST WORK, with p.219 in the uncorrected state.  E. E. Cummings' autobiographical first novel is based on his experiences as an enlistee with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France, where he openly expressed anti-war views. He was arrested and held by the French military on suspicion of espionage for three and a half months.  Of Cummings' first novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives—The Enormous Room by e e cummings...Those few who cause books to live have not been able to endure the thought of its mortality."  Firmage A1. THE COSMATOS COPY.