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Pound, Ezra. Polite Essays. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn., 1940.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The first American edition, one of 700 copies published by New Directions in 1940 from the British sheets. A near fine example of the book in publisher's red cloth with white paper spine label. A trace of light wear to the tips and spine ends. Spine label bright.

Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.

Pound, Ezra. Polite Essays. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1940.

Price: US$92.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Limited to 700 copies, this is one of Pound's most influential books, with important essays on Joyce, Eliot, Harold Monro of the Poetry Bookshop, and on "How to Read" and a critical study of Dante. A superb copy, tight and unmarked, and protected by a Mylar plastic jacket.

Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Pound, Ezra. Polite Essays. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn, 1940.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 207pp; red cloth. One of 700 copies made up from imported sheets of the 1937 English edition. Gallup A42b. Spotting to first and last few leaves; slight shelf wear, very good in a bright dust jacket, price-clipped, and with a few tears and old internal tape mends.

Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

POUND, Ezra.. Polite Essays.. Norfolk: New Directions [1940]., 1940.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: vii + 207 pp. Foxing to front and rear endpapers, else near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Gallup A42b.

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.