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POUND, Ezra (trans.).. Dialogues of Fontenelle.. , 1917.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Description: 54pp card covers, The Egoist Ltd., London, 1917. 1st edition. One of 500 copies. 5cm piece chipped from base of spine, covers slightly dusty, otherwise very good.
Seller: Anthony C. Hall, Bookseller ABA ILAB, Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom
Pound (Ezra). Translated by Ezra Pound. Dialogues of Fontenelle. The Egoist Ltd.,, 1917.
Price: US$195.01 + shipping
Description: [One of 500 copies] Wrappers detached and backstrip largely defective, some damp stains to wrappers have also very slightly affected front and rear free end papers, otherwise the text block is in nice, clean condition with only very minor occasional spotting Gallup A14.
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
POUND, Ezra (translator).. Dialogues of Fontenelle.. The Egoist, London, 1917.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 54 pp. Small 8vo, publisher's gold wrappers printed in black, in custom folding box. First edition; one of 500 copies. Gallup A14. A very good copy; the wrappers have been backed at the spine with Japanese tissue; one chip to the front panel reinforced on verso with tissue, as is a dog-eared corner at the back panel; a few very light stains to the front wrapper. The wrappers are about 1/4" shorter than the text pages; we cannot tell whether this shortage is the result of trimming during restoration.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, 54pp; original yellow wrappers, bound in pale blue glazed cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. One of 500 copies in the edition, an unknown number of unsold copies being used for a reissue in 1939. This copy belonged to the poet Babette Deutsch, whose 1917 ownership signature in on the first leaf. In 1917, Deutsch graduated from Barnard and embarked on her long career as a poet, critic, editor, teacher, and translator. She was associated with the tradition of Imagism, upon which, of course, Pound himself had placed an indelible mark. A nice association copy of an elusive Pound title. Gallup A14. Slight soil and a very short tear to front wrapper; few minor wrinkles; very good.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra (translates).. Dialogues of Fontenelle.. The Egoist, London., 1917.
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Description: First edition. Small octavo. 54 pages. Original pale yellow wrappers lettered in black. Scarce.Cover slightly rubbed and faded at edges. Faint diagonal crease on lower wrapper. Very good indeed and rarely met in such bright condition.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
POUND, Ezra (trans.). Dialogues of Fontenelle.. London: The Egoist Ltd, 1917, 1917.
Price: US$832.56 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 500 copies printed. Very hard to find in tolerable condition. Gallup A14. Octavo. Original yellow card wrappers with black titles to front wrapper. Spine and joints split with some repair, slight rubbing along the edges, small split to fore-edge of front wrapper, internally clean. A very good copy, with the original spine preserved.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
POUND, Ezra. trans.. Dialogues of Fontenelle.. London: The Egoist,, 1917.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 54 pp. Fine in printed wrappers with restoration to unprinted spine Gallup A14a.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra.. Dialogues of Fontenelle.. London The Egoist Press, 1917.
Price: US$1815.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's yellow wrappers printed in black; a truly exceptional copy and deeply uncommon thus. Only 500 copies of this scarce book of translations was printed at the Egoist Press under the direction of Pound himself. The book is in the same format albeit a different colour of Eliot's Prufrock published earlier the same year.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom