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POUND, Ezra.. Forked Branches: Translations of Medieval Poems.. Iowa City: Windhover Press,, 1985.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: xvi + 85 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine (very lightly sunned). Edited by Charlotte Ward, with an introduction by James Laughlin. Frontispiece wood-engraving by Dellas Henke from a watercolour by Dorothy Shakespear. One of 200 copies on Rives Heavy mouldmade paper. Berger 86.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Ezra Pound. Forked Branches. The Windhover Press, University of Iowa, 1985.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover, bound in cloth backed boards. Light wear along the spine and corners.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Forked Branches: Translations of Medieval Poems. The Windhover Press, Iowa City, 1985.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Edited by Charlotte Ward. Introduction by James Laughlin. Colored frontispiece wood-engraving by Dellas Henke, after Dorothy Shakespear. Tall octavo. Printed in blue and black in handset Romanee and Lutetia on cream Rives mould-made paper. Quarter charcoal cloth over paste-paper boards, spine printed in black. A fine copy. One of 200 copies. *Berger* 86. A lovely volume.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$186.07 + shipping
Description: , [4], xvi, 85 pages, [1], translations of medieval poems, edited by Charlotte Ward, introduction by James Laughlin, tipped in colour frontispiece, published to mark the centenary of the author's birth, binding by William Anthony, French mouldmade paper Limited Edition of 200 copies , book in near fine condition , grey marbled paper boards, grey cloth spine with black titles 28 x 17.5 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: This is one of the pressÕs most ambitious publications. It brings together translations from YaleÕs important Pound collection, including many that were hitherto unpublished. Included are a fragment of Anglo-Saxon verse, translations of poems by the French Troubadours and translations from the Italian, including the work of Guido Cavalcanti. Pound produced this material between 1905 and 1943. Tall octavo. xvi, [87] pp. Colored frontispiece wood-engraving by Dellas Henke, after Dorothy Shakespear. Printed in blue and black in handset Romanee and Lutetia on cream Rives mould-made paper. With the original language and the modern English on facing pages. Charcoal cloth over paste-paper boards, spine stamped in black. A fine copy, with publisherÕs prospectus laid in. One of 200 copies. Berger 86.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1380.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. xvi, 85, (2)pp. One of 200 copies. This with a separate print of the frontispiece, and a photograph of the original of the same. The photograph indicates the original artist (who remains unnamed in the present edition) as Dorothy Shakespear, beleagured wife of Pound and daughter of novelist Olivia Shakespear. The updated 1985 woodcut has been printed in seven colors using seven separate blocks, which accompany this copy. The blocks are numbered along their sides and retain the traces of their respective colors, so that the current reader can recreate the series in which they were used. A delightful insight into the book's creation, albeit not obviously in keeping with this selection of Pound's translations of medieval poems, which have been compiled for the edition by Charlotte Ward and introduced by James Laughlin. Bound by William Anthony in gray cloth-backed boards with pastepaper covers. Minor rubs to corners, else fine.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.