B16 THE ENORMOUS ROOM [1928]

THE | ENORMOUS ROOM |By| E. E. CUMMINGS | With an | Introduction | by | ROBERT GRAVES | [publisher’s emblem] | JONATHAN CAPE 30 BEDFORD SQUARE | LONDON

Collation: [A]8 B–X8, 168 leaves.

p.[1] THE ENORMOUS ROOM; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publication and printer’s notices; p.5 CONTENTS; p.[6] blank; pp.7-15 INTRODUCTION; p.[16] blank; pp.17-23 FOREWORD (1922); p.[24] blank; p.[25] THE ENORMOUS ROOM; p.[26] blank; pp.27-332 text; pp.[333]-[336] blank.

20.2 × 12.9 cm. Bulk: 3.0/3.5 cm. White wove paper; top and fore-edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in dull plum cloth; front blank; back blind-stamped with publisher’s emblem; spine stamped in gold: THE | ENORMOUS | ROOM | [decorative leaf] | E. E. CUMMINGS | JONATHAN CAPE

Price: 7s.6d. Number of copies undisclosed. Published in July 1928 in a cream dust-jacket printed in black and red.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is the introduction (pp.7–15).

This book was reprinted twice in 1928; in 1930 an impression was issued in Cape’s Life and Letters Series; Graves’s introduction did not appear in an American edition of this work until 1970 when an edition was published by Liveright.