McALMON ROBERT; editor Contact Collection of Contemporary Wr

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McALMON, ROBERT; editor. Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers. 8vo, original printed wrappers, spine slightly wrinkled with one short split at head, minor finger-soiling; few soft creases; housed in felt-lined clamshell case, smudged. Printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantiere. (Paris: Contact Editions and Three Mountains Press, 1925)

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first edition. one of 300 copies published jointly by McAlmon's Contact Editions & William Bird's Three Mountains Press. Contains literary contributions by Djuna Barnes, Bryher, Mary Butts, Norman Douglas, Havelock Ellis, Ford Madox Ford, Wallace Gould, Ernest Hemingway, Marsden Hartley, H. D., John Herrman, Joyce, Mina Loy, McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams. Includes Joyce's Work In Progress from Finnegans Wake; Hemingway's Soldiers Home, which first appeared in the American edition of In Our Time; and William Carlos Williams's essay on Marianne Moore.