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Ezra Pound. Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$89.83 + shipping
Description: A smart second printing of this collection of poetry from American writer Ezra Pound. Second printing February 1927, originally published December 1926. With frontispiece. The collected poetry of Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, an expatriate American poet and critic, and a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement. This collection includes: Ripostes, Lustra, Homage to Sextus Propertius, H. S. Mauberley, and all other works other than the unfinished Cantos. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the extremities. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, frontispiece by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 231 pp., original dark blue cloth, spine and edges slightly rubbed and faded. Inscribed by Hart Crane to the artist John W. Taylor "To Jack Taylor, Good friend and counselor, Hart Crane, December '28". The recipient, we confidently think, is the Baltimore-born Woodstlock artist John Williams Taylor, 1897-1983. Crane traveled to Europe in early December 1928, as did Taylor and Crane wrote in a March 29 letter to Sam Loveman that Taylor was "freshly arrived in Paris," and staying at his (Crane's) hotel. Crane's choice of a Pound volume as a gift, and the connection with Taylor provide an interesting line of inquiry.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.