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POUND, EZRA (ED). Active Anthology. Faber & Faber, London, 1933.
Price: US$69.57 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: - Ex Library w/ resultant stamps including one to text block top edge - Covers moderately worn and marked w/ spine ends a little bumped - "I" and "A" written in pen to spine near tail - Edges of text block tanned - Endpapers worn and toned w/ pen marks to top edge of front pastedown - Page margins and content moderately toned - Book ow/ solid and tight - 255 pages
Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra. Active Anthology. London Faber & Faber 1933, 1933.
Price: US$70.85 + shipping
Description: 255pp. Hardcover. Very good first edition
Seller: Chichester Gallery, Chichester, United Kingdom
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp 255. Pound's anthology of emerging modernist poets includes poems by Cummings, Basil Bunting (many) Marianne Moore, D. G. Bridson, Zukovsky, Louis Aragon, Carlos Williams, Stein, Eliot, Pound himself (including Cantos) and Hemingway. Ezra Pound pp 255 Original publisher's red cloth lettered dark blue at spine. Sp v slightly darkened and very slightly tanned, slight handling wear, nneat crossed out name on fep, slight abrasion from rubbed out name o/w about VG sound example with clean text.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
POUND, Ezra (editor).. Active Anthology.. London Faber and Faber Ltd, 1933.
Price: US$90.75 + shipping
Description: First edition; 8vo; slight age-toning, minor spotting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's dark red cloth, blue lettering to spine, spine slightly toned, else very good. Pound's anthology of modernist poets, including works by Louis Zukofsky, Ernest Hemingway, and T.S. Eliot.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra (ed.). Active Anthology. Faber & Faber London 1933, 1933.
Price: US$122.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition / 1st printing hardback in original cloth Nice copy small octavo 255pp., Neat ownership signature o/w nice crisp, tight, square copy
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Description: [Poetry Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with white titles to spine. Gently toned, otherwise a clean copy internally. Lightly rubbed and bumped to boards, with heavy rubbing and toning to spine. Lower joint split; upper starting. Good. A scarce collection. Pound introduces a wide selection of contemporary American poetry which he considered relatively unknown in England at the time.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra. Active Anthology. Faber & Faber, London, 1933.
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Front board is water stained to bottom, but this has not affected the contents.
Seller: Books & Bygones, Reading, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra. Active Anthology. Faber & Faber, London, 1933.
Price: US$306.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 255 pp. Tightly bound. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Light, minor ding to tip of lower back corner. This copy first published in October 1933 by Faber and Faber. The dust jacket is yellow with red and black type. The dust jacket is only 'good" because the yellow on the spine is toned; tanned / browned as is common when you find this book with a dust jacket. There is wear to the jacket along the edges and extremities. Dust jacket is not price clipped. Dark burnt red linen cloth covered boards stamped in dark blue type face.
Seller: Montana Book Company, Fond du Lac, WI, U.S.A.
EZRA POUND.. ACTIVE ANTHOLOGY EZRA POUND.. FABER AND FABER LIMITED, LONDON, 1933.
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Mr Pounds last anthology of contemporary verse was a critical narrative , in this volume he presents an assortment of writers mostly ill-known in this country ,in whose verse a development appears or in some instances we may say still appears . 12mo Pp, 255, [1] original orange cloth covered boards , title in blue lettering on spine. Front free has inscription and date ,and some very slight offsetting.on both front and rear. Rest of volume is good fore edge has some spotting.Dust Jacket is good but spine is browned front and rear are yellow, head and tail of spine are clipped signature to front of dust jacket Mr Pound's introduction is itself a provocative and exciting this is a very interesting book.
Seller: Highstreet Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra. Active Anthology. Faber and Faber, London, 1933.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Introduction by Pound. Near Fine in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped (7s. 6d. net), toned at the spine, multiple chips and tears at the edges. Red cloth with blue ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, clean internally. Pound's anthology meant to familiarize the British readership with poets he found significant, namely William Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, Louis Zukofsky, Louis Aragon, E.E. Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, Marianne Moore, George Oppen, D.G. Bridson, T.S. Eliot, and of course, Pound himself.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Pound Ezra. Active Anthology. Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1933.
Price: US$579.72 + shipping
Description: Bound in original publishers rust cloth, with blue lines and lettering. Cloth very lightly bumped, top edge dust marked. Binding in good clean firm condition. Dust jacket rubbed, chipped, abrasion loss along folds. Generally jacket in good condition. Internally, pages clean. A good copy. Size: 8vo
Seller: George Jeffery Books, HERTFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra [Editor].. Active Anthology.. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1933.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression. A Fine copy in dark burnt red linen cloth covered boards stamped in dark blue, in a Very Good yellow dustwrapper printed in black and red, not price-clipped, with toned spine, moderate wear to points, and small chip to heel of spine. 255pp. This curious partisan selection, with its eccentric Preface, has real historical interest, including work by Williams, Bunting, Zukofsky, Cummings, Hemingway, Moore, Oppen, and Eliot among others. This book has always been scarce, due to its small initial limitation (about 1500 copies), and the fact that the remaining 750 copies were destroyed during the bombing in WWII. Q10487
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.