READIES FOR BOB BROWN'S MACHINE.
Brown, Bob [ed & pub]:
Cagnes-sur-Mer: Roving Eyes Press, 1931. Original printed front wrapper (spine and rear wrapper replaced with a semblance of matching paper). Plate. Two pencil ownership signatures erased, some small chips to forecorners of front wrapper and lower forecorner of first several leaves creased, a bit tanned, as usual, but a sound copy of a book intended to be dismantled. First and only edition of this remarkable anthology, printed in an edition of three hundred copies. Includes contributions by C.H. Ford, Jolas, Pound, Marinetti, Cunard, Stein, Neagoe, Boyle, Bowles, McAlmon, Putnam, Williams, Farrell, Hiler, Vail, et al, most contributions having been written expressly for this volume. Born of a curious melding of the visual impact of the Armory Show and Brown's stint as a Wall Street investor huddled over ticker-tape machines, the Reading Machine was his attempt at a mechanism that would present the printed word in a continuous linear progression. Brown published this anthology of prose tailored for use on the Reading Machine, a "fourth dimensional" literature that might match the dynamism and visual vitality of the age. His attempts to patent and market his Reading Machine were unsuccessful, though not without some competition. In the end, his idea might be simply a curious, but anticipatory, stab at a novel way of text presentation more in tune with the latter half of his century than the first. WALLACE B16. GALLUP B26. MILLER B1.
(Item ID: WRCLIT59690) $750.00
"Readies" for the Reading Machine