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POUND, Ezra. Lustra of Ezra Pound with Earlier Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1917.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Duodecimo. 5.25 x 7.25 in. 202 pp. Fair in original tan boards that have cracks on front and back, yet remain intact. The interior pages are clean and well-bound despite the condition of the boards and hinges.

Seller: Bagatelle Books, IOBA, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.

Eliot, T. S.; Pound Ezra. Ezra Pound - His Metric and Poetry. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1917.

Price: US$233.95 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Rare first edition. Limited to 1,000. Rose-colored boards, some edge, spine wear, bump. Pages good, clean. Frontispiece sketch of Pound by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Bind good. Ezra Pound greatly influenced and encouraged T. S. Eliot's publication of his writings. Pound prompted Eliot to write this pamphlet, though anonymously in order to avoid accusation of mutual promotion and his authorship was not made public until two years after original publication. The title itself was Pound's idea, thematically linking it to another book by the publisher, Ezra Pound's Lustra. Brief tribute to Pound and analysis of his writings issued to promote Knopf's edition of Lustra. Pound revised and corrected it before sending it off to John Quinn, who was arranging publication. Insured post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.

Pound, Ezra. Lustra of Ezra Pound with Earlier Poems.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1917.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Cloth. 8vo. 202 pp. First edition. Very good. Small chip at crown of spine. Faint staining to front and rear panels. Extremities rubbed. Endpapers foxed.

Seller: David Morrison Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Pound, Ezra. Lustra (First appearance of The Cantos) The American edition of Lustra represents the first appearance in book form of Pound's Cantos, including as it does a special addendum of "Three Cantos Of A Poem Of Some Length.". Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1917.

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Description: Attractively bound in mustard-colored paper-covered boards stamped brightly in dark blue with the title, author and border rules on the front boards and on the spine.With a touch of fraying to the top of the spine ends.Very clean and tight throughout. With a 1' separation along the hinge at the bottom of the front panel. Light soiling and a touch of fading to the left edges of the rear panel. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885– 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962).[1] Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, he helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce. He was responsible for the 1914 serialization of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the 1915 publication of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", and the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses. Hemingway wrote in 1932 that, for poets born in the late 19th or early 20th century, not to be influenced by Pound would be "like passing through a great blizzard and not feeling its cold."[a] Angered by the carnage of World War I, Pound blamed the war on finance capitalism, which he called "usury".[3] He moved to Italy in 1924 and through the 1930s and 1940s promoted an economic theory known as social credit, wrote for publications owned by the British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, and expressed support for Adolf Hitler. During World War II, Pound recorded hundreds of paid radio propaganda broadcasts for the Italian government, including in German-occupied Italy, in which he attacked the United States Federal Government, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Britain, international finance, munitions makers, arms dealers, Jews, and others, as abettors and prolongers of the war. He also praised both Eugenics and the Holocaust in Italy, while urging American GIs to throw down their rifles and surrender. In 1945, Pound was captured by the Italian Resistance and handed over to the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps, who held him pending extradition and prosecution based on an indictment for treason. He spent months in a U.S. military detention camp near Pisa, including three weeks in an outdoor steel cage. Ruled mentally unfit to stand trial, Pound was incarcerated for over 12 years at St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., whose doctors viewed Pound as a narcissist and a psychopath, but otherwise completely sane. (Wikipedia) First American edition with matching title page and copyright page dates of 1917. And with "Published October, 1917" on the copyright page.

Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.

Pound, Ezra. Lustra. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1917.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 202 pp. First American edition, second impression [actually the first American trade edition, following a privately circulated impression]. Mustard-colored paper covered boards stamped in dark blue, top edge stained dark blue. Very Good, with rubbing to corners, several small patches of wear to covers and light loss to publisher's imprint at base of spine, spine slightly faded, pages lightly thumbed, blank pages at rear roughly along fore edge and rear end sheets irregularly cut. A notoriously fragile book, found here in rather presentable condition and quite rare as such. Gallup A11d.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

[Eliot, T. S.]. EZRA POUND HIS METRIC AND POETRY. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1917.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Description: 31pp. Rose boards, stamped in gilt. Portrait of Pound by Gaudier-Brzeska. Spine somewhat sunned, gilt lettering with a slight patina, boards faintly dust-soiled, small bump toward crown of spine, but a very good, clean copy, without the usual foxing to the verso of the frontis. Lacking the plain tan paper shipping wrapper. First edition of Eliot's anonymously published second book, superintended by John Quinn as a promotional for LUSTRA. According to Gallup, one of one thousand copies printed -- however, the frequency with which copies turn up - particularly in light of the attrition rate one would expect for a book so delicate - can't help but suggest the edition may have possibly been a bit larger. GALLUP (ELIOT) A2.

Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

[ELIOT, T.S.]. Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry.. New York Alfred A. Knopf i.e. 1918, 1917.

Price: US$605.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, sole printing, one of 1000 copies; 8vo; frontispiece with a reproduction of an ink sketch by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska; original pink boards, titles to upper board gilt, back strip just a touch faded, boards very lightly marked, nonetheless a very decent copy. Eliot's second book, published anonymously. Pound's tireless commitment and dedication to Eliot and his poetry, how to get it published and appreciated by a wider audience, prompted Eliot to write this pamphlet, though anonymously in order to avoid accusation of mutual promotion. Pound suggested the title and the pamphlet was published early in January 1918, carefully timed to tie in with another Knopf publication, Ezra Pound's Lustra. Gallup A2.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

T.S.ELIOT (published anonymously).. Ezra Pound. His Metric and Poetry.. Alfred A.Knopf, New York, 1917.

Price: US$650.08 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition of the author's second book, issued anonymously, and never published as a stand-alone volume in the UK (although it was included in his 1965 collection 'To Criticize the Critic'). Slim 8vo. 31pp. Pink paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the upper board. With a portrait frontispiece of Pound by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Spine ends and corner tips a little rubbed, with some fading to the spine. Binding cracked and just a little tender at the first text leaf, and with just a touch of spotting to the rear endpapers. Former owner name partially erased from the tip of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in the original unprinted buff paper dust wrapper, split into two parts at the natural fold, and with several quite lengthy jagged tears and some accompanying creasing. Published in November 1917 as an accompaniment to Pound's Lustra, also issued by Knopf. Gallup A2. "There was a time when it did not seem fitting for me to write a pamphlet . but Ezra was then known only to a few and I was so completely unknown that it seemed more decent that the pamphlet should appear anonymously" - Eliot, 'The Cantos of Ezra Pound' (1933).

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

Eliot, T.S.. Ezra Pound His Metric and Poetry.. Alfred A. Knopf [1917], New York, 1917.

Price: US$900.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Gallup A2. Issued in 1918. Eliot's second book, published anonymously, to coincide with the publication of Pound's Lustra by John Quinn. 1000 copies. A Fine, clean copy in vertically ribbed rose colored paper covered boards stamped in gilt on front cover, in publisher's unprinted plain brown dust-wrapper. Wrapper is fully integral, though starting along spine fold. Frontispiece portrait of Pound by Gaudier-Brzeska. 31pp with list of Pound's works at end. A key document in the relationship between these two giants of Modernism. Q05131

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

[Eliot, T.S.]. Ezra Pound His Metric and Poetry. Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, New York, 1917.

Price: US$1174.47 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: "Here at last is Eliot’s essay. A long time in coming, but he has made an excellent job of it, as I knew he would. No gush. He has been rather clever in the way he sets the critics at each other’s throats. . It is certainly the most careful study that has been made, and in a way the first one by a competent critic . Again I must thank you for having the booklet done. I think the close arguing of Eliot’s essay ought to ‘do a deal of good’, and at least choke off the imbeciles. . I agree fully with you and Knopf, that it should NOT be signed by Eliot, just now when I am booming his work. Also he has written it as an unsigned thing. So there can be no question about that now." Ezra Pound to John Quinn, 9 September 1917. First and only printing of T.S. Eliot’s anonymously published second book. Intrigue and collaboration between John Quinn,T.S.Eliot and Ezra Pound, patron and poets, to promote Quinn’s privately printed edition of Lustra, Pound’s poetry in general and Eliot after Prufrock.The bibliography at the rear of the book has been established as Pound’s own work. Inscribed by John Quinn, "To Mr. Brock, I am not the author, January 25, 1918." Original red boards, stamped in gilt. Spine sunned, boards darkening. Good. 1,000 copies.

Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia

POUND Ezra. Lustra. , 1917.

Price: US$3250.42 + shipping

Description: First American edition, trade issue (following the issue of sixty copies for private circulation). 8vo., original yellow boards lettered in very dark blue. New York, Alfred A. Knopf. With a fine bold presentation inscription from the author on the front free endpaper ?a Victor / companions in misfortune / E.P.? The recipient is presumably Victor Plarr. Born in Strasbourg, educated in Edinburgh, he was a member of the Rhymers? Club with Dowson, Yeats and Johnson. He was a member of Pound's circle when he first arrived in London, and Pound was a regular visitor to his Sunday evening at-homes. They both wrote poems about each other, Pound famously describing Plarr's reminiscence of fin de siècle literary life in London in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Among the pickled foetuses and bottled bones, Engaged in perfecting the catalogue, I found the last scion of the Senatorial families of Strasbourg, Monsieur Verog. For two hours he talked of Gallifet; Of Dowson; of the Rhymers' Club; Told me how Johnson (Lionel) died By falling from a high stool in a pub . . . But showed no trace of alcohol At the autopsy, privately performed - Tissue preserved - the pure mind Arose toward Newman as the whiskey warmed. Dowson found harlots cheaper than hotels; Headlam for uplift; Image impartially imbued With raptures for Bacchus, Terpsichore and the Church. So spoke the author of ?The Dorian Mood.? M. Verog, out of step with the decade, Detached from his contemporaries, Neglected by the young, Because of these reveries. What is less well known is the very bad-tempered poem Plarr wrote out on the endpaper of his copy of Pound's A Quinzaine for this Yule, formerly in the Alan Clodd collection, now at the University of Delaware. It can only be about Ezra: Oh, in our dwindling age, 'tis ours to meet Rubbish Unspeakable at every turn. Claudian the Teutons had perforce to greet, And we dare not America now to spurn. The Quack survives when Arts of Learning die, And every critic learns to cringe & lie! I have not long to live, but let me damn Asses while I, once Victor Plarr, still am! An attractive copy, despite chipping to the foot of spine, very slight soiling to the spine, and binding being sprung at pp 30 - 31.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

Pound, Ezra.. Lustra of Ezra Pound with Earlier Poems.. Alfred A. Knopf., New York, 1917.

Price: US$4750.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First American trade edition, which omits the poem "The Temperaments" from the preceding limited edition of 60 copies. The American edition of Lustra represents the first appearance in book form of Pound's Cantos, including as it does a special addendum of "Three Cantos Of A Poem Of Some Length." A beautiful copy, unopened & virtually as new, in the rare dust jacket. Fine in bright yellow boards in near fine dust jacket with a few short edge tears. Laid-into custom clam-shell box with gold titles & quarter black leather and marbled boards. A remarkable survival. From the library of John Martin publisher of Black Sparrow Press with his discreet book sticker at base of rear paste-down. ; 5 1/2" x 7 3/4"; 202 pages

Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.