Europe:; A Book for America
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First edition. Small 8vo, 107pp; boards. A narrow band of darkening affects the upper edge of the boards, otherwise just about fine, partially uncut, in a soiled dust jacket with a couple of small chips and short tears. Item #205319
Before gaining widespread fame as a pornographer and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses - and fighting American censors in a landmark case for having done so - Roth wrote poems in a modernist vein that were praised by noted contemporaries such as Ezra Pound and Louis Untermeyer. This book is a long sequence reflecting on the destruction of Europe in the Great War and the lessons for the U.S. from the conflict. Extremely scarce in dust jacket.
Price: $245.00