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Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to front cover and spine, and wrapped in a mylar jacket. Handwritten poem by Amy Lowell to rear fly named "The Letter". Edited by Pound, it was published in the literary magazine The Glebe initially, with Pound only chosing to incorporate writers he felt exemplified the Imagist style. Occational pencil notations. Previous owner's name neatly to front fly dated 1923. English text. A clean copy with no further defacements. Scarce. 5.25 x 7.75 in
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Green boards printed in black with the half-title page with Poetry Bookshop imprint at bottom; 63 pages. If one book were to be chosen as the starting point of modern American poetry, this slim first collection of the Imagist school, the literary movement formed by Ezra Pound that lasted from 1913-1917, might very well be it. It contains 10 poems by Richard Aldington and 7 by H. D., whose appearances precede their first books. Pound is represented by 6 poems, and James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ford Madox Hueffer, and Amy Lowell each have a poem included. Edited by Pound, though no credit is given, this book was part of the same impression as the literary periodical GLEBE for February 1914. Gallup B7. Pencil signature on front endpaper; flaking and wear to spine with some loss, mostly along the front joint. Good
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra (editor).. Des Imagistes. An Anthology.. New York Albert and Charles Boni, 1914.
Price: US$332.75 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form; 8vo; faint spotting to prelims, else unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, light fading to cloth, one or two small marks to covers, slight rubbing to extremities, else very good. First edition in book form, following the edition of The Glebe (Vol. I, No. 5) published one month earlier. Contributors include Richard Aldington, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, among others. Gallup B7a.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
[Pound, Ezra, ed.]. Des Imagistes; An Anthology. Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1914.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form, earlier published as an issue of The Glebe. 63 pp. Blue cloth, ruled in blind on the front board and lettered in gilt on the front board and the spine. Spine a little darkened, some spotting to spine and rear board edge. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Interior clean and tight. Includes contributions by Richard Aldington, Hilda Doolittle, William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell, James Joyce, Pound, Ford Madox Ford, and others. Gallup B7a. Boughn B2a. Slocum & Cahoon B4. Harvey B8. Not in Wallace.
Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.