The Fiery Fountains
New York: Hermitage House, 1951. 1st Edition. Octavo, publisher’s black cloth over red paper-covered boards, spine gilt, upper board blind stamped, top edge stained in red, original illustrated dust jacket.
First edition of the second installment in influential American writer and editor Margaret Anderson’s autobiographical trilogy. An ardent advocate for experimental writing, Anderson is best known for founding avant-garde magazine the Little Review (1914-1922), perhaps the most influential publication of its time. With her partner Jane Heap and Ezra Pound at the helm, the Review published major modernists such as T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Djuna Barnes, and James Joyce (whose Ulysses she serialized, famously provoking an obscenity trial). Following My Thirty Years' War (1930) and preceding The Strange Necessity (1962), The Fiery Fountains details Anderson’s personal tensions with Heap, the legal battles over Ulysses, the financial instability from directing a magazine with little support from mainstream readers, and her frequent clashes with contributors over content and editorial direction. Illustrated with black-and-white photos. Dust jacket designed by Charles Jefferson. Price-clipped dust jacket with moderate chipping and edgewear, and several small cellotape repairs to verso. Very good. Item #12132
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