The Garden of Disorder

and other poems

by Charles Henri Ford

introduction by William Carlos Williams

frontispiece by Pavel Tchelitchew

First edition.  London:  Europa Press, 1938  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition, with a GOOD DJ under Mylar.

• Dark green covers are mostly clean.  Boards show some edgewear, a ding at head edge.  Corners are sharp.  See photos. 
• Spine has yellow ink title, effaced, with bumped ends.
• Binding is secure. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some toning, bookseller marks, owner's name plate on front pastedown. 
• Frontispiece is present.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits some smudges, stains to margins. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have deckle fore and foot edges.   
• DJ is nicely preserved behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper.
• Illustrated DJ has some edgewear, chipped corners, closed tears along head edge, bumping along foot edge, some staining, writing on front return.  See photos. 
• PS2025.0527

78 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches

A Very Good copy, in publisher's DJ, of this collection of poems by American author and artist Charles Henri Ford (1908-2002).  Fading to the inked title on spine, interior is tanned.  The sixth volume in the Europa Poets series.

This is the first volume of poetry by Charles Henri Ford, who was closely linked with the Paris scene and Surrealism.  A number of sonnets in the present volume are dedicated to Vicomtesse de Noailles, Parker Tyler, Djuna Barna and Pavel Tchelitchew.  Tchelitchew was Ford's long-term partner and the artist of the detailed frontispiece to the poems. 

Nameplate on front pastedown reads "David Enderton Johnson."

First edition, first impression.  Edition limited to 500 copies; this is copy #93, hand-numbered.  Printed by The Temple Press.  The Europa edition is the first issue of the book, with the plates from this edition being reused for the American edition published later in the year by New Directions.   

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