Ford, Ford Madox

A LITTLE LESS THAN GODS [Signed]

New York: The Viking Press, 1928. First U.S. Edition.

Octavo, x, 361 pages. In Good minus condition, lacking issued dust jacket. In publisher's blue cloth binding, with gilt lettering and blind stamp to front board and black lettering to spine; spine is sunned brown. Moderate shelf and edge wear to boards, with rubbing along all board edges and fore corners, scuffing on boards and spine, light bumping to corners and head/tail, and mild soiling. Light toning along board edges. Text block is lightly worn and scuffed on the edges, with a faint stain on the top edge. Light age toning throughout, darkest on text block edges. Inscribed in black ink by Ford Madox Ford to Anne France Bird on the front flyleaf: "Anne France Bird / from Ford Madox Ford / with lots + lots of good wishes / for xmas + New Year / MCMXXVIII". SH consignment. Shelved in Room A.

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Special Collections - Upstairs

Price: $2,000

NOTES

Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette.

This title was among Bird's private collection, having been carted by him from Paris (where he stayed until 1940), to Spain, Tangiers, and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US.