Pound, Ezra. Polite Essays. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1937.

Price: US$60.20 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition hard cover, no jacket, in good condition for its age. General shelf and handling wear, including fading to boards, with wear to edges and (bumped) corners. Light blemishes noted. Pageblock is tanned and foxed. Within, gutter break at pages 80-81, however, all pages are securely bound, and content is clear and bright. CN

Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom

Pound, Ezra. POLITE ESSAYS. London: Faber and Faber LTD., (1937)., 1937.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Red cloth with gilt-spine titles. Two underlined passages in the rear, top page edges dust-soiled, fading to the spine and along to upper edge of the front cover, else a very good, tidy copy; lacking the dust jacket. Uncommon collection of literary essays. Octavo (5" by 7 5/16") 207 pages. Original 1956 sale invoice laid in.

Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.

POUND, EZRA. POLITE ESSAYS. Faber and Faber, London, 1937.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition [preceedes the 1940 New Directions publication]. vii, 207 pages. Red cloth with spine titles in gilt. Octavo. Spine titles bright, upper corners have a bit of chafing, textblock square and tight. Nice clean cover. Interior clean and bright. A very nice copy. No dust jacket. Chapters include: Harold Monro; The Prose Tradition in Verse; James Joyce et Pecuchet; Mr. Eliot's Solid Merit; "Abject and Utter Farce"; How to Read; Civilization; Note on Dante, etc.

Seller: Studio Books, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.

Pound, Ezra.. Polite Essays.. London Faber & Faber, 1937.

Price: US$219.25 + shipping

Description: 207 pp. Original cloth with dust jacket. First Edition. - Fore-edge stained. Front inner hinge with worm tracks, spine and edges of jacket browned, edgewear with short tears. Gewicht (Gramm): 336

Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany

Ezra Pound. Polite Essays. Faber & Faber, 1937.

Price: US$281.79 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: This copy is Gallup A42a. First edition; Faber & Faber; [1937]. Red cloth boards stamped in gold on spine; end-papers; top edge stained yellow-green. Lavender dust-jacket printed in black and red. This book is internally fine, without inscription or other defect except for the slightest forward lean. The dust-jacket presents very nicely; there are small splits at the top and tail of the gutters and the spine has faded and is a bit worn. There is some unfortunate loss to the bottom of the back cover and the top of the spine has been repaired internally (a good job). Not price clipped; the flaps are fine. A nice collection piece.

Seller: de Beaumont Rares, London, United Kingdom

POUND, Ezra (1885-1972). Polite Essays. London: Faber and Faber, 1937, 1937.

Price: US$320.22 + shipping

Description: [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 207 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine; top edge yellow. With the purple typographic dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Gently toned with a light tobacco scent. Some red pencil marks to contents page. Blue ink marginal note to p.102. Heavy rubbing to jacket, which has tape repairs and heavy toning to spine and flap joints. Rubbing and chipping to edges. Rare with the jacket. Very good. A collection of literary essays published in various periodicals between the late 1920's and mid 1930's.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

POUND, Ezra. Polite Essays. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1937.

Price: US$330.85 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1937. Octavo, viii (first two blank), 207 pages. Red cloth; top edge dyed yellow-green, bottom edge uncut; tiny bump to the foot of the rear joint; essentially a fine copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper sunned and a little marked on the spine, with minor loss to silverfish to the front panel and spine. Seventeen essays, including 'James Joyce et Pécuchet' (in French) and 'Mr. Eliot's Solid Merit'. Gallup A42a: 'Published 11 February 1937 at 7s. 6d.; 2000 copies printed . 700 sets of sheets with reprinted title-leaf and conjugate were imported by New Directions and specially bound and jacketed for sale in the United States'.

Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Pound (Ezra). Polite Essays.. Faber and Faber, 1937.

Price: US$448.30 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. [viii], 207, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, gentlest of bumps to top corner of upper board, top edge green, dustjacket with backstrip panel gently faded, a touch of nicking and chipping at folds, very good. A companion to 'Make it New', with an emphasis on more contemporary literature. (Gallup A42a)

Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom

Pound, Ezra. Polite Essays. Faber and Faber, London, 1937.

Price: US$575.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (7s. 6d. net), faded at the spine and edges. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a green top stain, signature of statistician F.J. Anscombe on the front endpaper, clean internally. A companion to Make It New, a collection of critical essays focusing on more contemporary problems.

Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.