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Ezra Pound. Exultations of Ezra Pound. Elkin Mathews, 1909.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: On the outside there is some wear and tear, especially around the spine (where a small bit is missing). On the inside there is some soiling of the end-papers and a tiny bit of foxing, but not bad for its age.
Seller: Pegasus Books NZ, Wellington, NA, New Zealand
Pound, Ezra. Exultations of Exra Pound. Elkin Mathews, London, 1909.
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original gilt-titled reddish/brown boards. Spine damped, spine ends chipped, minor stains and edgewear to boards. PO name and inscription, ffep with loss to top of page. Occasional very minor pencilling in text. Pp viii, 9-51, [11]. Sound and square. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. EXULTATIONS OF EZRA POUND. Elkin Mathews: London, 1909.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: 7 x 4.5", gilt-lettered red boards, 51pp + ads, covers well worn and darkened, extremities bumped & fraying, spine ends chipped (esp spine bottom), hinges loose, contents with scattered spotting and finger soil. FIRST EDITION of Pound's fourth book.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Exultations of Ezra Pound. Elkin Mathews, London, 1909.
Price: US$141.47 + shipping
Description: Pages clean & binding tight, but top 1cm missing at head of spine; spine bumped at foot. First edition, first state, with 'of' on front board. Used - Good. Good hardback in maroon cloth with gilt
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
POUND, Ezra. Exultations. Elkin Mathews, London, 1909.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 16mo, original rose boaards. London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. First Edition. First issue, with "of" on the front cover. Internally fine, but the covers are rubbed and the spine worn & repaired. Gallup A4.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Pound Ezra. Exultations. Elkin Mathews, London, 1909.
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 500 copies. First state with 'of' on the front board. Name, occasional light foxing. Spine and 1' strip of the back board sunned, slight abrasion.
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
POUND, Ezra.. Exultations of Ezra Pound.. London Elkin Mathews, 1909.
Price: US$453.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, first issue; small 8vo; publisher's dark rose paper boards, title to upper board and spine gilt, very lightly string mark to boards, spine distinctly sunned. Very good. Pound's second commercially published book (following the two privately printed collections), Exultations was printed in an edition of 1000 copies more than half of which were issued together with unused sheets of Personae as a remainder. This first issue is one of less than 500 copies and in not all that common. Gallup A4.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra. PERSONAE OF EZRA POUND. Elkin Mathews, London, 1909.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Drab boards, stamped in gilt. Bookplate on pastedown, erased ownership signature and 1910 acquisition date on free endsheet (the date still intact), crown of spine slightly bumped, with narrow crack at top of upper joint; still, a good, internally fine copy. First edition of Pound's first trade collection, in the first state of the binding, with the spine stamping measuring 2 cm high. The edition consisted of 1000 copies, of which 500 sets of sheets were utilized for the 1913 omnibus reissue with EXULTATIONS. GALLUP A3a.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Exultations. Elkin Mathews, London, 1909.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 16mo, original rose boaards. London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. First Edition. First issue, with "of" on the front cover Near fine copy, almost entirely unfaded; the lower corners being bumped. Gallup A4.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Exultations. Elkin Mathews, London, 1909.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, original printed boards. Lightly rubbed at extremities, spine panel faintly sunned, otherwise a fine copy. Lightly rubbed at extremities, spine panel faintly sunned, otherwise a fine copy First edition, presumed first issue with "of" in the title on the front cover. Of an edition of 1000 copies, approximately 500 sets of sheets were later bound together with sheets from Personae in a single volume. Gallup A4a. Exultations includes a number of Pound's most famous early poems, including "Sestina: Altaforte" & "Ballad of the Goodly Fere".
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra.. Exultations.. London Elkin Mathews, 1909.
Price: US$1058.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, first issue; small 8vo; publisher's red paper boards, titles to upper board and spine gilt; an especially nice copy, minor darkening to the spine and edges of the boards but almost entirely free from the rubbing that plagues this publication. From the collection of the Harvard Professor C.T. Copeland with ownership inscription in pencil to the title page. Gallup 3a.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra. Personae. Elkin Mathews, London, 1909.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, 59pp; original drab boards stamped in gilt. Pound's first regularly published book, preceded by two legendary rarities (A Lume Spento and A Quinzaine for This Yule); 1000 sets of sheets were printed, of which as many as half were later used for a combined edition with Exultations (1913). This copy derives from the library of scholar and poet Dean B. Lyman, whose inscription is neatly inked to the front pastedown. Gallup A3a. Neat ownership inscription on front pastedown; boards showing some inconsequential marking; a very nice copy
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra.. Exultations of Ezra Pound.. London: Elkin Mathews,, 1909.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: 51 pp. Expected light scattered foxing, else fine in boards and in the original glassine that is a bit rumpled and edgeworn with a few short tears. Gallup A4a. One of Pound's own copies, with the label, "From The Venice Library of Ezra Pound & Olga Rudge" inside the front cover. Housed in a custom clamshell case (two lower corners lightly bumped).
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.