Collected Poems 1922-1939. by Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

N.Y., Book of the Month Club, 1990. Hard Cover. unpaginated, ca. 500 p.; 23.5 cm. 315 poems. Adapted from the 1977 Franklin Mint edition. This is a remarkable production. What would e. e. have thought of the pretentiousness of a Franklin Mint pseudofication? And Book of the Month Club!? The fact that the two (non-)entities thought there was a broad enough market is interesting. No editorial credit is given (although Nancy T. Andrews held the 1977 copyright, so she must have contributed something). Yet somebody decided to exclude all of the post-1938 poetry and arrange it in its form. Checking the web, there are no copies of this edition in LC, Brown, Columbia, Yale. Liberians, it seems, are too snobbish to add this nicely made but unfashionable bibliographical entity to major poetry collections. Vg/dj vg. 101733.