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The European Caravan: An Anthology of the New Spirit in European Literature
1931534325New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Edited by Samuel Putnam Maida Castelhun Darnton George Reavey and J. Bronowski. Introductions by André Berge Massimo Bontempelli Jean Cassou and E. Giménez Cabellero. Some faint staining on the boards a well-used near very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Owner stamp of Anais Nin and Ian Hugo on front fly. Nin has plentifully annotated the book in pencil on the first 60 pages and then intermittently after that as well as made notes on the endpapers.<br /> <br /> Contains the first book appearance of Samuel Beckett in the United States. Additional contributors include W.H. Auden H.D. T.S. Eliot Dorothy Richardson William Empson Nancy Cunard Hugh MacDiarmid Tristan Tzara Francis Picabia Jean Cocteau Robert Desnos Blaise Cendrars and others. Stated as Part I this was the only volume published. An interesting copy of an important anthology. Brewer, Warren & Putnam hardcover
