Brown, Robert [Bob] Carlton.

My Marjonary.

Boston: John W. Luce & Co., 1916.

Octavo, 93 pages. First edition. Brown was a novelist, essayist, journalist and noted food critic, but is perhaps best remembered for his early avant-garde poetry exemplified in this volume, as well as for being the visionary inventor of the "reading machine," for which he published books on spools of tape by W.C. Williams, Pound, Stein and others. A unique voice and a cult writer of growing significance. Very good or better with some light rubbing and a handful of faint patches of soil to cloth, mild shelf-wear at extremities. Inscribed by Brown to Kay Boyle: "For Kay / the cast-iron container / of bouillabaisse / Bob / [...] / 1931." A charming association: Boyle was one of Brown's closest correspondents. A scarce volume, rare signed.