Eimi by E E Cummings - 1933

E-88: Covici Friede Inc.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1933. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Covici Friede Inc Publishers. 1933. 432 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Number 85 of 1381 signed limited copies. Signed by E. E. Cummings on the limitation page. Sales slip from James Cummings laid in. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ (all panels of the DJ are present but detached from each other). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. While sometimes termed a "novel," it is better described as a novelistic travelogue, the diary of a trip to Russia in the 1930s during the rise of the Stalinist government. Despite some contempt for what he witnesses, Cummings's narrator has an effective, occasionally hilarious way of evoking feelings of accord and understanding. As Ezra Pound wrote, Cummings's Soviet Union is laid "out there pellucidly on the page in all its Slavic unfinishedness, in all of its Dostoievskian slobberyness....Does any man wish to know about Russia? 'EIMI'!" E-88; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 432 pages; Signed by Author .