Tom
193547454New York: Arrow Editions 1935. First Limited Edition 1500 copies. Octavo 22cm; dark red cloth stamped in foil; color frontispiece by Ben Shahn; 36pp frontis. Light soiling and wear to boards; textblock fore edge deckled toning to page margins with light foxing intermittent throughout. Overall Near Fine without dustwrapper.<br/><br/>E.E. Cummings' Tom is the author's avant-garde attempt to interpret Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin as a ballet. Gestures are described through Cummings' prose-poetry while the characters themselves are reimagined as doll-like entities. While Cummings intended for this project to eventually make it to a real stage it was never performed in his lifetime having seen multiple rejections for its inaccessibility. Arrow Editions unknown books
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