Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
POUND, Ezra. Cantos LII - LXXI. New Directions, Norfolk, Ct., 1940.
Price: US$34.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, 2nd state; 1 of 1000 copies; 'Gallup, A47b; bound in black buckram, sans DW; 167pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Cantos LII - LXXI. New Directions, Norfolk CT, 1940.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No limitation or rear pamphlet ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 167 pages
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stapled pamphlet with faint edge wear. B /w photo of Pound by James Angleton. One of 500 issued with Cantos LII - LXXI in 1940 (lacking original envelope) . ; 15 pages
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Cantos LII-LXXI. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue without pamphlet [Gallup A47b; 1000 copies printed; "first 500 copies have an envelope pasted to inside back cover containing a pamphlet. ."]. Octavo. [viii], 167pp. Black cloth. Owner's neat ink name on front and rear pastedowns, slight tanning on endpapers, else a very good copy lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Cantos LII-LXXI. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue without pamphlet (Gallup A47b; 1000 copies printed; "first 500 copies have an envelope pasted to inside back cover containing a pamphlet."). Octavo. 167pp. Black cloth. Moderate edgewear and boards trifle bowed, very good and sound, lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra.. Cantos LII-LXXI.. Norfolk Connecticut New Directions James Laughlin, 1940.
Price: US$60.50 + shipping
Description: First American edition; 8vo; ownership signature to front free endpaper, slight age-toning, some offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally, with envelope containing pamphlet pasted to rear pastedown; publisher's black cloth, silver lettering to spine, slight fraying to spine ends, lacking dustjacket, else very good. One of 1000 copies, this being one of the first 500 copies with the envelope pasted to the rear pastedown containing a pamphlet, Notes on Ezra Pound's Cantos: Structure and Metric (Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, [1940]). The second 500 copies were issued without the envelope and pamphlet. Gallup A47b.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Ezra Pound. Cantos LII-LXXI. New Directions, 1940.
Price: US$64.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of the first 500 copies with the envelope and pamphlet 'Notes on Ezra Pound's Cantos: Structure & Metric' pasted inside the back cover. Photo of Pound has been removed from the pamphlet. Corners bumped; some loss to cloth at extremities; spine slightly loosened; browning to endpapers. Without dust-jacket. First American edition. Gallup A47b
Seller: de Beaumont Rares, London, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra. CANTOS LII-LXXI. New Directions, Norfolk, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Large octavo. Cloth. Endsheets tanned from binder's glue, errata not present, shallow chip from sleeve affixed to rear pastedown, otherwise a nice copy without dust jacket. First edition. One of the first five hundred copies, with the small pamphlet, NOTES ON THE CANTOS, inserted in a pocket in the rear. The Notes were written by James Laughlin (as "H.H.") and Delmore Schwartz (as "S.D."). GALLUP A47b. HARRISON, NEWTH & CANDIDO, p.5.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Ezra Pound. Cantos LII-LXXI. New Directions, 1940.
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Gallup A47b. One of the first 500 copies with the envelope and pamphlet 'Notes on Ezra Pound's Cantos: Structure & Metric' pasted inside the back cover. All very fine. Without dust-jacket.
Seller: de Beaumont Rares, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, full black cloth over boards, 167 pages. Clean, bright, unmarked copy. Publisher's notes on Pound's Cantos in envelope tipped-in to rear endpaper. Dust jacket protected in new mylar wrap; 1 short closed tear to front panel, and 1/4" chip from spine.
Seller: Tsunami Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. The Fifth Decad of Cantos. Farrar and Rinehart, 1940.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition, second issue published from the 419 sets of the sheets obtained from Farrar and Rinehart by New Directions and issued with the New Directions title page in 1940, A near fine example of the book with some offsetting to the endsheets and two light strips of discoloration to the black cloth on the rear board. Dust jacket exceedingly bright ( identical to first issue ) with just the merest trace of rubbing to the edges.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Cantos LII - LXXI.. New Directions, Norfolk,, 1940.
Price: US$219.78 + shipping
Description: 167 S., schwarze OLwd. m. Rückentitel Erste amerikanische Ausgabe. In 1000 Ex. gedruckt - hier eines der ersten 500 Ex. mit dem meist fehlenden, lose beil. Pamphlet 'Notes On The Cantos' in einer Tasche auf dem hinteren Innendeckel.
Seller: Antiquariat Knut Ahnert Berlin, Berlin, Germany
POUND Ezra. Cantos LII - LXXI. New Directions, 1940.
Price: US$227.48 + shipping
Description: - New Directions , Norfolk 1940, 22,5x16cm, relié. - Edition originale américaine imprimée à 1000 exemplaires. Date de publication inscrite au tampon 17 sept. 1940. Reliure de l'éditeur en pleine percaline noire. Notre exemplaire est bien complet de la jaquette en couleurs comportant quelques petites déchirures et manque en pied et en tête. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
Seller: Librairie Le Feu Follet, Paris, France
Pound, Ezra.. Cantos LII-LXXI.. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1940.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in black cloth, in a white, burnt red and black dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with small wear to spine-ends. 167pp. with pocket on rear pastedown containing the pamphlet on Pound's metric. Q15910
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra.. Cantos LII-LXXI.. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1940.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Gallup A47b. Fine in black cloth lettered in silver at spine, with pocket and stapled pamphlet to rear pastedown, in a Near Fine or better scarlet, white and black dustwrapper, unfaded, not price-clipped, with slight toning to spine and minute scratches to crown. 167pp. Pamphlet is Fine. Offsetting to front and rear gutters. Text and endpapers clear and unmarked. Scarce in this condition. Q14292
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.