Americans Abroad. An anthology. Edited and with a foreword by Peter Neagoe.

The Servive Press, The Hague, 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, second issue (in linen-backed boards). Tall 8vo. 475pp. Linen-backed paper boards, lettered in red at the spine and upper board. Publisher's blue stain to top edge. Endpapers browned and with a small area of surface abrasion to the title-page verso. A very good copy in the elusive dust wrapper, considerably faded at the spine panel, a little chipped at the spine ends, with one internally repaired tear and several areas of internal tape reinforcement. An important anthology of post-war American expatriate writers - this copy unusually well preserved. Includes work by Conrad Aiken, Djuna Barnes, Kay Boyle, Malcolm Cowley, the Crosbys, e.e.cummings, John Dos Pasos, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene Jolas, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Laura Riding, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams &c, plus Henry Miller's first appearance in bookform ('Mademoiselle Claude'). Most selections are accompanied by a brief self-penned biography, bibliography and photograph, many with a facsimile signature (Hemingway manages to sum up his life in five words and six numbers, Ezra Pound's effort is somehow even better ("I can't bloody well be bothered to write my own biography . ")..