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Price: US$311.69 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue. 8vo., original cloth, fore and lower edges untrimmed. London, Elkin Mathews The second issue, without the author's name on the spine, in plain cloth. Old ink ownership inscription to the front pastedown, with a library number, head of the spine just nicked, endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise a very good copy indeed.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra. Canzoni. London: Elkin Mathews, 1911.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, first printing 12mo Very Good HC, no DJ. 52 Pages. "Streaky grey cloth boards", gilt letters; title page in black letters w/ red device; watermarked laid paper, uncut on fore & tail edges. Slight browning at cover edges and on spine; light rubbing at spine ends w/ few small splits; tight; very clean interior; one leaf w/ dog-ear crease. Gallup A-7; Nelson 1911.20.
Seller: Lee Madden, Book Dealer, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra.. Canzoni.. London Elkin Mathews, 1911.
Price: US$1512.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, first issue; small 8vo; early newspaper portrait of Pound tipped onto the rear pastedown, neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper; publisher's streaked grey cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt, spine a little dull; a very nice copy. An important early collection, preceding the composition of any of the Cantos proper but with many tell signs of what was to come. The book sold poorly and at least 500 sets of the sheet were issued later bound together with part of the print run of Ripostes. Gallup 3a.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom