May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 303

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
McALMON, ROBERT; editor. Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers. 8vo, original printed wrappers, spine browned and ends chipped, scattered soiling; crease to upper outer corner of contents, partially unopened. one of 300 copies. Printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantiere. (Paris: Contact Editions and Three Mountains Press, 1925)

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first edition, signed by mcalmon. 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 & 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, Hanneman B3; and William Carlos Williams's essay on Marianne Moore.