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Laughlin, James. Gists & Piths: A Memoir of Ezra Pound. Windhover Press, Iowa, 1982.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Bound in brown cloth and boards and limited to 250 copies. A clean tight copy. From the collection of American books by Norman J. Sondheim, with his bookplate affixed.

Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.

Laughlin, James. Gists & Piths A Memoir Of Ezra Pound. The Windhover Press At Iowa, 1982.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited to 250 copies. ".adapted from a talk I gave at the University of Pennsylvania on April 25, 1981." No dust jacket. ; 23 pages

Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.

Laughlin, James. Gists & Piths: A Memoir of Ezra Pound. The Windhover Press, Iowa, 1982.

Price: US$39.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: This is a fine hardcover first edition copy, brown cloth spine, pasted spine label, no DJ Blind-stamped on the title page with the likeness of Pound. One of 125 unsigned copies with the publisher's slip noting that Laughlin donated to the University of Iowa the Pound postcards that were planned to be included in 25 signed copies.

Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

Laughlin, James. GISTS & PITHS. The Windhover Press, Iowa, 1982.

Price: US$49.50 + shipping

Description: Limited to 250 copies. 22pp., letterpress printed in two colors in Spectrum types on Rives paper. Blind-stamped on the title page with the likeness of Pound, with errata sheet. Laughlin was the founder of New Directions a venture he undertook with Pound's encouragement; he was Pound's editor. Their friendship is recounted rather lightly as the title suggests in this address he gave at Penn. A lovely production and a very fine copy - never read - in cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper label on spine.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

LAUGHLIN, James. Gists & Piths: A Memoir of Ezra Pound. The Windhover Press, Iowa, 1982.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 22, [1] pp. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on spine. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies. With publisher's slip noting that Laughlin donated to the University of Iowa the Pound postcards that were planned to be included in 25 copies.

Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

LAUGHLIN, James. Gists & Piths: A Memoir of Ezra Pound. The Windhover Press at Iowa, (Iowa City), 1982.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards with printed paper spine label. Publisher's slip laid in. Fine. One of 250 copies.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Laughlin, James. Gists & piths: a memoir of Ezra Pound. Windhover Press, Iowa [City], 1982.

Price: US$62.50 + shipping

Description: Edition limited to 250 copies, this one of 225 without the signed postcard from Pound; 8vo, pp. [2], 22, [2]; printed in red and black, title page blindstamped with the likeness of Pound's head; fine copy in original brown cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper label on spine, but without the separately printed slip concerning Laughlin's donation of the post cards to the University of Iowa Foundation. From the library of Kim Merker. James Laughlin was editor of New Directions, and over the course of his relationship with Pound, received better than 1500 letters from him. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 79.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Laughlin, James. Gists & piths: a memoir of Ezra Pound. Windhover Press, Iowa [City], 1982.

Price: US$62.50 + shipping

Description: Edition limited to 250 copies, this 1/225 without the signed postcard from Pound; 8vo, [2] & 22pp., printed in red and black, title-p. blindstamped with the likeness of Pound's head; fine copy in original brown cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper label on spine. Jame Laughlin was editor of New Directions, and over the course of his relationship with Pound, received better than 1500 letters from him.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

LAUGHLIN, James. Gists & Piths: A Memoir of Ezra Pound. The Windhover Press at Iowa, (Iowa City), 1982.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards with printed paper spine label. Fine. One of 250 copies.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

LAUGHLIN, James. Gists & Piths: A Memoir of Ezra Pound. The Windhover Press at Iowa, (Iowa City), 1982.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards with printed paper spine label. Small attractive bookplate front pastedown, else fine. One of 250 copies.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

(Pound, Ezra) Laughlin, James. Gists & Piths. A memoir of Ezra Pound. Windhover Press, Iowa City, 1982.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Description: Original quarter brown goatskin, fine, boxed as issued. One of 25 special signed copies, which include a postcard from Pound to the author, and a printed slip concerning Laughlin's donation of the post cards to the University of Iowa Foundation. The postcard, dated 6 June 1938, typed on both sides, with Pound's handwritten annotations, signed with initial, shows Pound's concern with the design of "Guide to Kulchur": "In absorbing KULCH/ I trust you will suppress St Simon Stylites wrapper and if possible ascertain WHO committed it. St J/ was served on a platter/ waaal mebbe the to is intended as a platter/ but the violation of ideogramic principles wd/ only confuse our compatriots . also if they are printing you new copies/ get the frontispiece LEVEL. " New Directions took over 520 sets of sheets of the Faber edition and issued them under the title "Culture", changing the wrapper design.

Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.

Laughlin, James. Gists & piths: a memoir of Ezra Pound. Windhover Press, Iowa [City], 1982.

Price: US$3750.00 + shipping

Description: Edition limited to 250 copies, this the first (number 1) of 25 copies signed by the author and with the original signed postcard from Pound inside the rear cover pocket; 8vo, pp. [2], 22, [2]; printed in red and black; title page embossed with the likeness of Pound's head; fine copy in original brown niger-backed paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt on spine. Also, with a printed slip concerning Laughlin's donation of the post cards to the University of Iowa Foundation. From the library of Kim Merker. This particular postcard (postmarked Oct. 22, 1937) is addressed by Pound in type to James Laughlin (and with a forwarding address added in ink likely by a New Directions employee); the body of the text is typed with four additions by Pound in ink, the whole signed in ink, 'E.P.' A typically manic Pound creation: In part: "I suppose some supposer supposed that representin "Globe" here iz th same as Globating the representation etc / in the there / otherwise there is one born ever 3 minutes." Here, Pound inserts in ink: "Besides it may be over by now." He continues: "re Pell / IZ he Pell of Livright? and what does he mean a difference??? . anyhow the sommer the cash comes in the sooner it can go OUT that is called circulation . PS / about old Bill / dn it I HAVE an opinion as with Marianne / for years I bat it into the brick stupidity of the pubk till someone prints 'em and then they xpect me to HAVE an opinion / they havin don non of the constructy . Why don't they do a bit of work getting ME into circulation." James Laughlin was editor of New Directions, and over the course of his relationship with Pound, received better than 1500 letters from him. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 79.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.