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Pound, Ezra. A Draft of XXX Cantos. Farrar & Rinehart, 1933.
Price: US$81.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition, second state with "sh-t" on pp. 61/62. No jacket. Top page ridge and rear endpapers lightly foxed, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1933 Hard Cover. 149 pp. An epic of great vision and complexity, Pound's Cantos addresses the profound human issues in history and in our time. Each of the nine groupings of poems can be seen as a fresh wave that swells out from and falls back upon the earlier cantos, extending them structurally, adding new layers of meaning. "A Draft of XXX Cantos" (1930), which introduces the work, thus anticipates the full Cantos' essential themes and provides the surest entry into Pound's encyclopedic masterpiece.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. A Draft of XXX Cantos. Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1933.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition, p.61/62 on cancel leaf [*Gallup* A31c]. Slight foxing on foredge, boards lightly rubbed, binding slightly cocked, very good, lacking the dust jacket. One of 1000 copies printed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. A DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS. Farrar & Rinehart no date [1933], New York, 1933.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition, second issue, with p.61-2 on cancel leaf and offending word p.62 reading "sh-t." Only 1000 copies printed. Originally published in 1930 in Paris, but this U.S. edition precedes the one in the UK Pages lightly tanned, with touch of offset to endpapers. Near fine, lacking dust jacket.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. A Draft of XXX Cantos. Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1933.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition, p.61/62 on cancel leaf. Octavo. 149pp. Octavo. 149pp. Tiny stains at the top of the crown and the topedge, else fine copy in good only toned dust jacket with water stains at the spine, tape repaired spine splitting and moderate edgewear, including chips, tears and creases. One of 1000 copies printed. Gallup A31c.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. A Draft of XXX Cantos. Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, New York, 1933.
Price: US$133.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U.S. edition of 1,000 with page 61/62 excised and replaced w/tipped in page 61/62 and previously offending word now reading "sh-t." Publisher's device on verso of title page. Originally published in 1930 in Paris, this U.S. edition precedes the U.K. edition. Black full-cloth (buckram) boards, silver stamped spine titles, lt. shelf wear. Deckled linen pages, lt. wear, some tanning. Bind solid; hinges intact. Boards protected w/clear sleeve. Thirty poetical pieces of Ezra Pound's stations of existence. The bulk of Pound's work on The Cantos began after his move to Italy. Like all other great epics, it is the story of good and evil, a descent into hell and the progression to paradise. Its hundreds of characters fall into three groups: those who enjoy hell and stay there; those who experience a metamorphosis and want to leave; and a few who lead the rest to paradiso terrestre. Vintage owner's plate of Wilbur Chapman Goodson inside cover. Interestingly, a letter of correspondence from E.E. Cummings to Goodson is in the collection of University of Texas. Designed by Robert S. Josephy. Printed in the United States of America by J.J. Little and Ives & Sons, New York. 149 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. A DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS. Farrar & Rinehart: NY, 1933.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 9 x 6", black cloth, 149pp, covers rubbed, extremities worn, pp toned, with small bookseller's label from Peabody Book Shop in Baltimore. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, later issue with pp61-62 tipped in and corrected to "sh-t". THIS WAS POET KARL SHAPIRO'S COPY WITH HIS INK SIGNATURE AT TOP OF FRONT FLY.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. A Draft of XXX Cantos. Farrar & Rinehart, New York, NY, 1933.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NYC: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. 1st USA edition (2nd issue with cancel leaf on pp. 61-62, to correct "shit" to "sh-t"), NF/G. Book has some darkening to end-papers, light edge wear to an otherwise virtually unblemished binding. DJ is price-clipped, chipping to spine ends (not affecting the lettering), darkening to spine and folds, chipping to corners & folds, chipping along both upper edges, small chips at both corners of front panel, some darkening to both panels, wear to upper edges of both flaps, a stain on lower edge or rear panel near gutter. In other words, a very delicate, but still serviceable, dust jacket. These are the first thirty cantos.
Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Ezra Pound. A Draft of XXX Cantos. Farrar & Rinehart, 1933.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Farrar & Rinehart January 1933 Binding: Hardcover good, not price clipped, some very minor tears and fading to dj otherwise very good copy $NRP
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. A Draft of XXX Cantos. Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1933.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition, second printing, with p. 61-62 with the spelling "sh-t" 149 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With the ownership signature of the writer Harry Brown, dated 1939, bought at the Grolier bookshop in Cambridge during his time at Harvard. Brown gained praise from Louis Bogan for his 158 page poem "The Battle of Bunker Hill," and went on to write novels that were often made into films from 1945-1960. He worked as a screenwriter and contributed to Ocean's Eleven. Gallup A31c Black cloth, fine, with ownership signature and bookseller's ticket from the Grolier bookshop in Cambridge, MA; dust-jacket with "Second Printing" on front flap and $2.50 price, generally sun-darkened, with some chipping along top edge First American edition, second printing, with p. 61-62 with the spelling "sh-t".
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. A Draft of XXX Cantos. Farrar & Rinehart [1933], New York, 1933.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth in yellow decorative dust jacket printed in brown and black; [4],149pp. Jacket extremities and spine toned, a few short closed tears and shallow losses, small damp stain to jacket spine crown, additional small loss mid-upper jacket panel not affecting text, cloth corners slightly rubbed, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. One of 1000 copies published, with pp. 61/62 cancel as usual. GALLUP A31c.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra.. A Draft of XXX Cantos.. New York Farrar and Rinehart, 1933.
Price: US$423.50 + shipping
Description: First American edition, second printing; 8vo; with pp61-62 cancel with the spelling 'sh-t,' slight offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth, silver lettering to spine, with the unclipped dustjacket with 'second printing' stated on the front flap, spine toned, else very good. First American edition, one of 1000 copies printed. Gallup A31c.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom