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POUND, Ezra. Imaginary Letters. The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, trade issue. Octavo. 56pp. Printed wrappers. Owner's ink inscription dated 1931 on front flyleaf, the front cover has large but very light faint stain on wrappers. else very good and bright, with text very clean. Limited to 300 numbered copies. *Gallup* A32 (total edition was 375 copies).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Imaginary Letters. Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 350 on Navarre paper. [iv], 56, [4]pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Gallup A32; Minkoff Original cream wrappers. Some external spotting, else near fine. Bookplate [iv], 56, [4]pp. 1 vols. Small 4to First edition, one of 350 on Navarre paper.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Ezra Pound. Imaginary Letters. Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930.
Price: US$410.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This copy is Gallup A32, first edition, one of 300 printed on Navarre (out of a total of 375). Heavy white paper wraps printed in black and red, folder over the first and last leaves. Partial glassine wrapper, surviving only around the back-flaps and part of the back cover. Clean wraps, minus a very slight discolouring to the fore-edge of the front, and a worse stain to the middle of the spine that has slightly spilt to the front and worse to the back. Very minor loss, top of spine. Minor tear near the bottom of the front wrap. Internally fine minus two small black marks, pages 4 and 5.
Seller: de Beaumont Rares, London, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra. IMAGINARY LETTERS. Black Sun Press, The, Paris, France, 1930.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. paper wrappers, original tissue, paper covered boards slipcase. 56 pages. Limited to 350 copies, of which this is one of 300 numbered copies on Navarre Paper. Small abraison to bottom of the spine. The slipcase shows small splits along the top and bottom edge. One of the finest expatriate presses founded in Paris during the 1920s, Black Sun was noted for publishing the early work of modernist writers and exclusively limited quantities of meticulously produced, hand-manufactured books. IMAGINARY LETTERS consists of eight essays reprinted from the Little Review and is rarely found in such nice condition. paper wrappers, original tissue, paper covered boards slipcase
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Imaginary Letters.. The Black Sun Press, Paris,, 1930.
Price: US$639.40 + shipping
Description: 56 S., 2 Bll., OKart. m. OU. Erstausgabe. Eines von 300 (gesamt 350) num. Exemplaren auf Navarre Paper. Unaufgeschnitten. Letzte 3 Blätter zart angerändert - schönes Exemplar.
Seller: Antiquariat Knut Ahnert Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Ezra Pound. Imaginary Letters. Black Sun Press, 1930.
Price: US$769.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: POUND, Ezra. Imaginary Letters. Paris, The Black Sun Press, 1930. First edition in book form, one of the original 375 copies. Ezra Pounds Imaginary Letters were originally published between 1917 and 1918 in the Little Review, the American avant-garde literary magazine founded and edited by Margaret C. Anderson. The Black Sun Press was an English-language publishing house based in Paris. Founded in 1927 by American expatriates Harry and Caresse Crosby, it published the early works of influential literary figures such as Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Crane, D. H. Lawrence, and Hemingway. The books, all handset, were typographically impeccable and beautifully bound. The Black Sun Press closed in 1970, following Caresse Crosbys death. Octavo, pp. 56, edges untrimmed; a clean copy in the original printed wrappers with fold-over flaps enclosed in a glassine dust jacket, with the publishers beige paper-covered slipcase (glassine dust jacket browned at spine, chipped with some loss, slipcase slightly worn). Minkoff A-38.
Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom
POUND, Ezra.. Imaginary Letters.. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 56 pp. Fine in printed wrappers with just a suggestion of toning to the slipcase fingerpull areas. The slipcase is very near fine. One of 300 numbered copies on Navarre Paper. Accompanying this copy is the original prospectus (formerly pasted to another sheet, with some paper remaining on the verso). Gallup A32.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Imaginary Letters. The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 56 [4]pp; original printed wrappers. One of only 50 copies on Japan vellum and signed by Pound; there were an addition 325 copies in the regular issue. As in all of the Japan vellum copies, Pound has signed on the half title page with a calligraphic flourish. The owner's inscription, by poet and scholar Dean B. Lyman, is at the top of the same page. Loosely inserted is the publisher ticket repeating the number of this particular copy from the limitation sequence (copy 10). An exceptionally well-preserved copy. Gallup A32. Neat ownership inscription; offsetting affecting the wrappers, creating a "shadow" of the paper covering of the slipcase - mostly on the protective glassine; a fresh and unworn copy in the original slipcase
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Imaginary Letters. Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930.
Price: US$3250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, No. 5 of 50 COPIES printed on Japan Vellum and SIGNED BY POUND. 56 pp. 1 vols. One of 50. Gallup A32; Minkoff A38 Original cream wrappers. Near fine, clean copy in the original glassine (which is itself slightly discolored). Without slipcase. Bookplate of Julia Wightman First edition, No. 5 of 50 COPIES printed on Japan Vellum and SIGNED BY POUND.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.