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Ezra Pound. Pavannes and Divisions. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. First edition, second binding. Damage to gutter and rear hinge. VG not in dust jacket, as issued.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Ezra Pound. Pavannes and Divisions. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. First edition in first issue binding. Lacking dust jacket. Damage to joints. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Wear and mild shaking to front hinge. Abrasion to forecorners and edges of covers. Faint soil marks and tape residue to spine. G/---.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Pavannes and Divisions. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Collection of pieces by Ezra Pound including essays, poetry and criticism. 262pp, photo frontis. Clean copy with a bright interior and a sound binding. Previous owner's name on ffep. Small clippings re-Pound from Time magazine, pasted to tp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Antiquarius Booksellers, Falkland, BC, Canada
POUND, Ezra. Pavannes and divisions. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: [10], 262pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered in black. Light shelf-wear. Inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. From the library, though not identified as such, of English Movement poet and literary critic Donald Davie (1922-1995). The first edition of a collection of modernist poet Ezra Pound's (1885-1972) miscellaneous historical and literary essays, many of which had appeared previously in periodicals such as Poetry, The Fortnightly Review, and The Egoist. Size: 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra.. Pavannes and Divisions.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Printing. Second binding of medium grey cloth with grey stamping, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. 262pp. with Hoppe photo of Pound frontispiece. Very Good. Darkening to spine. Rear endpapers offset from clippings (not present). Text clean and unmarked. Pound's first important collection of prose essays, with chapters on Joyce, the Troubadours, Ford Madox Ford, Remy de Gourmont, etc. Q18576
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra.. Pavannes and Divisions.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Gallup A15. First Issue dark blue cloth binding, top edge stained dark blue. A Near Fine copy, slight rubbing to points and spine-ends, lacking the very scarce dustwrapper. 262pp. with frontispiece photo-portrait of Pound by E.O. Hoppe. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Essays and reviews on literary topics of the day. Q10540
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Pavannes and Divisions. Alfred A. Knopf, inc., New York, 1918.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: x + 262 pp, previous owner's name inked at bottom of ffep, binding tight, pages clean, unmarked, exterior gray cloth with light wear top/tail spine & forecroners, with black letters intact. No Jacket. 5.7" x 8.4" gray cloth boards. with glassine wrapper Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra.. Pavannes and Divisions.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing. About Fine in dark blue cloth stamped in gilt at spine, blind margin rules to front board. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Spine slightly darkened, but gilt clean. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Some pages unopened, one leaf opened roughly. Offsetting to endpapers. Fore-edge spotty. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. 262pp. An important early collection of essays. Q06511
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Pavannes and Divisions. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first American edition, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1918. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth. A very good copy with prior owner's signature and rubbing to extremities and the spine lettering. Photographic frontispiece of Pound.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Pavannes and Divisions. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, in first issue blue cloth with gilt lettering and blind-stamped covers. In Very Good condition, with edge wear to cloth with rubbing at spine ends, bumping to corners and edge of upper board, scratch to cloth at rear. Pages show bumping, toning and a few smudges. A nice copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, first printing. Rare original binding. Yes this is the rare but rarely seen First Edition in the original blue hardcover binding with green lettering on the spine and the green Bozi device on the back cover. Most copies of this first printing were issued in CLOTH but this is not cloth but only cloth-patterned hardcover. Lacking the frontispiece. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Pavannes and Divisions. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, later issue binding. Octavo. Blue cloth stamped in green. Offsetting from clipping on front endpapers, a lightly rubbed a near fine copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Pavannes and Divisions. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first issue binding [as per *Gallup* A15]. Octavo. 262pp. Blue cloth gilt. Frontispiece portrait, reproducing a photograph of Ezra Pound by E.O. Hoppe. Very slight bump to one corner, else an about fine copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$995.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION with the rare DUST JACKET. Full grey cloth with black lettering on the spine, publisher's name in all capitals at the bottom of the spine, jacket is priced at $2,50 with loss of half the spine. Front panel is near complete with a minor ship to the top left, back panel near complete with only minor chipping. First Edition, first printing, later state binding. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a VERY GOOD book in a GOOD brodart protected dust jacket. Photos available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Pavannes and Divisions. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue binding of blue cloth stamped in gold. Bookplate of an important African-American book collector, light wear at the edges of the boards, very good or better in very good example of the uncommon dust jacket, with two internal archival repairs at the folds, a thin slice of offsetting at the edge of the front flap, shallow chipping at the crown, and faint dampstaining along the spine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.