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Price: US$381.61 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 25 x 19 cm 168 pp with 38 b&w illustrations and additional illustrations of drawings. Hbk. edges of text block lightly foxed, endpapers browned, o.w. a fine copy.
Seller: Marcus Campbell Art Books, London, United Kingdom
POUND, EZRA. Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1916.
Price: US$502.45 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue in green cloth with Gaudier's amulet image embossed on front cover. (Gallup A10.) With an accomplished pencil nude - somewhat in the style of H.G-B. - to the rear endpaper, initialled "J.S." Rubbed at extremities, browning to endpapers, hinges a little weak, some foxing - nonetheless a very good copy and now scarce.
Seller: Peter Grogan, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$858.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first issue (c. 450 copies). x, 168 pp. Publisher's original green cloth with embossed design by Gaudier-Brzeska on front board. Gilt lettering to front board & spine. Spine slightly darkened with slight wear to spine edges & extremities. Front hinge weak. Bookplate to front pastedown. Frontis portrait. With 38 illustrations, consisting of photographs of the artist's sculpture and 4 portraits by Walter Benington, with reproductions of drawings. Good to VG copy 4to.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
POUND, Ezra. GAUDIER-BRZESKA: A MEMOIR. , 1916.
Price: US$1080.00 + shipping
Description: POUND, Ezra. GAUDIER-BRZESKA: A MEMOIR. London: John Lane/The Bodley Head; New York: John Lane Company, 1916. x + [2] + 168 pp. First Edition. First Printing. Small 4to., green cloth with gilt lettering, embossed front board. Good, sound copy, some faint damp spots to spine, light shelfwear and rubbing, corners gently bumped. A few pencil margin notes. With 38 b/w illustrations, including photo reproductions, portraits by Walter Benington, and reproductions of drawings. Gallup A10a.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1081.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of about 450 (1000) complete sets of English sheets bound up in 1916 in grey-green cloth boards embossed in blind with a reproduction of a green stone charm by Gaudier-Brzkska on front cover (later issues do not have this design), spine and upper board titled in gilt. Top edge stained grey-green. Lacks dust-jacket. A very good copy. (Gallup A10) 1000 sets of sheets were printed (of which 200 were used for the American issue, 100 were bound up in 1927-28, and 250 were re-issued by Laidlaw and Laidlaw in 1939.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra. Gaudier-Brzeska. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1916.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, first issue binding. Publisher's green cloth boards embossed in blind with a reproduction of a stone charm by Gaudier-Brzeska, titles stamped in gilt. Very Good. Boards lightly splayed, cloth lightly rubbed at extremities, frayed at corners, darkened at spine and lightly soiled, foxing and dust-soiling to textblock edge. Front inner hinge slightly tender, former owner's bookplate to front pastedown and pages toned. Gallup A10.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Ezra Pound. Gaudier-Brzeska. A Memoir. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1916.
Price: US$1113.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression. [pub. 1916] 38 illustrations, including 4 portraits by Walter Benington, photographs of sculpture, reproductions and drawings etc. 4to. Publisher's original olive green cloth, gilt lettered, with striking cartouche embossed in blind to front panel, a stone charm in the style of the artist's work, a number of leaves unopened, a couple of small faint punctures to front, head & tail a touch pushed, minor rippling to lower front corner, usual gentle toning to endpapers, but overall a very pleasing, square and tight example, no signs of weakness to hinges and minimal rubbing, a superior copy of an edition that is one of approximately 450 produced; a memoir including the published writings of the sculptor, and a selection from his letters. x, 168pp. More photos/information available on request.
Seller: B. B. Scott, Fine Books (PBFA), London, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$1272.02 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, one of 450 copies, of Pound's important monograph. "The enthusiasm of artists and the publication of Pound's Gaudier-Brzeska: a Memoir (1916) and H. S. Ede's Savage Messiah (1931) led to a growing appreciation of his catalytic role in the birth of modernist sculpture in Britain" (ODNB). The two first met in 1913, at an exhibition of Gaudier-Brzeska's work in London. "Pound befriended Gaudier-Bzeska, championed his work in magazine articles and promoted its sale. Together with Wyndham Lewis and his associates, Gaudier-Brzeska was involved in the vorticist movement and his work figured in their exhibitions and publication Gaudier-Brzeska's massive marble bust, known as the 'Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound', remains an icon of friendship and an avant-garde movement in art" (Wilson, p. 226). The artist was killed in 1915, while serving at the front at Neuville-St Vaast in Artois and was buried in the military cemetery there; deeply affected by this loss, Pound published the present biography the following year. Gallup notes that of the 1,000 sets of sheets printed, 200 were used for the American issue, 100 were bound up in 1927-28, and 250 were reissued by Laidlaw and Laidlaw in 1939, meaning that, at most, 450 copies can be considered to be of the first edition. Provenance: armorial bookplate on the front pastedown of Clifton Waller Barrett (1901-1991), American shipping magnate, bibliophile, collector, and founder of the Barrett Library of American Literature at the University of Virginia. Gallup A10. Peter Wilson, A Preface to Ezra Pound, 2014. Quarto. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, elaborate blind stamp on front cover after a design by Gaudier-Brzeska, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Photographic portrait frontispiece and 37 plates, title page printed in red and black. Slight rubbing to extremities, peripheral toning to outer leaves, intermittent light foxing to contents, otherwise clean: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
POUND, Ezra.. Gaudier-Brzeska. A Memoir.. London John Lane The Bodley Head, 1916.
Price: US$1512.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, first issue binding; 4to; photographic illustrations throughout, text block somewhat toned; publisher's green cloth, embossed device to upper board in blind, titles to upper board and spine gilt, terminal and endpapers significantly browned as usual, but a particularly nice copy in the beautiful first issue binding. A fresh copy of Pound's remarkable early work on the life and short career of the ill-fated genius. Gaudier portraits of Pound were amongst the most vivid and powerful portrait of ANYONE made in the twentieth century. This copiously illustrated biography remain a key work the artist. Pound was also executor of the estate. Copies in this condition and in the first issue binding are very uncommon. Gallup A10a.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom