Pound, Ezra. Diptych Rome-London: Homage to Sextus Propertius & Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Contacts and Life. New Directions, New York, 1957.

Price: US$1600.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, limited issue signed by Ezra Pound on rear colophon, one of 125 numbered copies for sale in the United States; issued in a total edition of 200 copies. 77, [3] pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+ with rubbing to lettering and a hint of soiling to spine, wear at head and tail, slight haloing to signature. Housed in Very Good publisher's slipcase with tan paper label, starting to split along top edge, a little worn and sunned. A deluxe limited edition signed by the influential American modernist poet.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.