1/20 [ONE OVER TWENTY]: POEMS A Selection made by the Author.

First edition, first printing. Original stiff card boards lettered in blue to the front panel, issued without dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the sewn binding firm, the contents bright and clean. The card wraps are lightly toned, soiled and rubbed, with a little wear and bumping to corners and spine tips; the dink to the upper outer corner is (lightly) visible to the upper corner of the page block. Previous owner's name (dated 1939) neatly in ink to the front endpaper, and a small bookseller's label affixed to the lower inside edge of the rear board ('Gotham Book Mart. NY'). Printed price (Two Shillings) to the front panel. A very well-preserved copy of this early selection of the poet's work for a UK audience.

The first book of Cummings' poems to appear in the UK (his autobiographical novel, 'The Enormous Room', had been published by Jonathan Cape in 1928), 1/20 is the author's own selection of twenty poems drawn from volumes published in the US between 1923 and 1935. (Firmage A16).