Pound, Ezra. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 De Los Cantares. New Directions, New York, 1956.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Notations through book, ink stamps inside cover, newspaper article in book, including ghost fading. 1" tear to dust jacket, spine faded.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
POUND, EZRA. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los cantares. New Directions Books, New York, 1956.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Description: FINE BOOK IN VERY GOOD+ DUST JACKET WITH $3.00 PRICE AND SHORT CLOSED TEAR AT TOP OF FRONT PANEL/.
Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Description: 107p. Inked ownership of Harry Seyler (of York County, PA. Member of the Pennsylvania State Senate 1955-1962). Small 8vo. Original full black cloth binding, spine lettered in silver. Original dust jacket, price clipped. Hardbound. Very good plus condition. First (American) Printing. Very nice copy. POETRY BOX 2 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 De Los Cantares. New Directions, New York, 1956.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 107pp. Black cloth with silver spine title, Grey paper dustjacket with brown titles and decoration has a 3 inxh triangular loss to the front panel and is spine tonned, jacket in mylar. MC
Seller: Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. SECTION: ROCK-DRILL 85-95 DE LOS CANTARES. New Directions (1956), (New York), 1956.
Price: US$31.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 107 pages, black cloth with silver printing to the spine. Very Good in a slightly toned and edge chipped but whole dust jacket.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los Cantares. New Directions, New York, 1956.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 107 pages. A near fine copy in black cloth boards with a small former owner signature to the front free endpaper and some toning along the gutters of the endpapers from the glue and in a near fine dust jacket with some toning to the edges and spine and some other very minor wear. A pleasing copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra.. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los cantares.. New Directions, New York, 1956.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in black cloth, in a Very Good pale grey dustwrapper printed in maroon, not price-clipped, with moderate toning to spine and edges, with a couple of tiny closed tears. 107pp. Text clean and unmarked. Q12461
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Section: Rock-Drill 85 - 95 de los Cantares. (NY): New Directions; (1956), 1956.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: First US edition (precedes the UK edition published by Faber), near fine in a like dust jacket. Page edges, jacket spine and jacket edges are all uniformly darkened. Tiny stain on the top edge of the pages. No names or other markings in the book; $3.00 price on jacket flap is present.
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Pound Ezra,. Section: Rock-Drill 85 - 95 de los cantares.. New Directions Books, New York, 1956.
Price: US$44.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: OLn., SU, 8°, 4 Bll., 107 (5) S., guter Zustand
Seller: Antiquariat Seibold, Schorndorf, WN, Germany
Pound, Ezra. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los Cantares. New Directions, (New York), 1956.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 107p octavo A fine bright copy in dust jacket. Spine darkened. Stated First Printing
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound. New Directions, 1956.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: About Very Good blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pagination edges darkened with dust soil top. Toning at cloth extremities. In a Very Good $3.50 dust jacket a bit sunned at spine with light wear & moderate rubbing. Name handsomely penned at front endpaper with associated owner stamp. Second impression of New Directions offset edition with the 1956 jacket advertising Pounds Section: Rock Drill at rear flap. A sound copy.
Seller: Et Al's Read & Unread Books, Wausau, WI, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Personae: The Collected Poems. A New Directions Book, New York, 1956.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. (16) 273 (1) pp, frontis. Second Impression, 1956 [GALLUP A27b]. Price clipped. Inked name ffep. 1/4" to 3/4" chipping along top edge spine dj, lower fore eedges. . Light external wear and age-toned text block. No markings, binding tight, paper aging, top edge spotted 5.75" x 8.75". Blue cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Illustrated dj with advertisement for Section: Rock-Drill on rear flap in acetate protector. Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NOTE EDITION/PRINTING COMMENTS BELOW. Blue cloth with gilt stamped titles to front and spine, in grey card jacket with black titles and figure, 8vo. Apparent 1956 (or later) printing with appendices containing early poems, works by Hulme and Orage. $3.50 price with ad for Section: Rock-Drill to rear flap. (Info from Univ. Illinois online Pound bibliography). VG/VG-. Book has mild sunning to spine with colors and gilt still clear and strong, light foxing rear cloth and spine; foxed page edges. Binding tight and square, pages mildly toned but clean and unmarked. Jacket has foxing stains all around panels and spine with colors, titles and figures clear and sharp. 3/8" closed tear lower front hinge end, no chips, tears or creases. Not ex-lib jacket in Brodart.
Seller: Bookfeathers, LLC, Lewisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Section: Rock-drill 85-95 De Los Cantares. A New Directions Book, New York, 1956.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Ezra Pound. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los cantares. New Directions, New York, 1956.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first printing with $3.00 flap price and black cloth binding. Book is fine, clean and unmarked. Jacket is clean, bright and whole, with slight fading of spine color (bright title) and aa tiny horizontal spine chip. An attractive copy in its archival Mylar jacket cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra.. SECTION: ROCK-DRILL. 85-95 DE LOS CANTARES.. NEW DIRECTIONS., NY, 1956.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good+ or better copy in a Vg.+ dj. (Offsetting to endpapers & pastedowns. Spine on dj. age toned, though still perfectly readable. 1"-inch tear at head of front cover of dj.) (B)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Ezra Pound. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los Cantares. New Directions, 1956.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing hardcover, 1956, with very good cover, tight binding, clean pages. Very good inside and out.
Seller: Blue Leaf Books, Winona, MN, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Personae ; the Collected Poems of Ezra Pound. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn., 1956.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition of the New Directions printing, in the second impression dust jacket ( priced at $3.50 and with the advertisement for Section: Rock Drill to the rear flap.) Published in 1956 by New Directions. A near fine copy of the book with a single bumped corner and a touch of edgewear. Dust jacket very good, spine ends chipped.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Section: Rock - Drill 85 - 95 de los cantares. New Directions, New York, 1956.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Hardbound book in dustwrapper. 107 pp. First American edition. An especially clean and attractive copy in price-intact dustwrapper. Light spine toning.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los Cantares. New Directions, 1956.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 inches; 205 x 128 mm), 107, [1] pages, black cloth, silver titles to spine, in a gray, unclipped dust jacket. Ezra Pound's cantos 85-95. This is a first printing of the first American edition; New Directions issued 2,081 copies. Gallup A70b (Donald Gallup, Ezra Pound: A Bibliography). CONDITION: Offsetting to end papers, some light staining to top of pages 54-55, small ink mark to top edge, pencil notation to front paste down. The unclipped ($3.00) dust jacket has some light soiling, along with toning along the extremities and to the spine. Very Good overall.
Seller: Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA, Hopewell, NJ, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra.. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los cantares.. New Directions, New York, 1956.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in black cloth (crown slightly rubbed) in a Fine pale grey dustwrapper printed in maroon, not price-clipped. 107pp. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Q16052
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra.. Section: Rock-Drill. 85-05 de los Cantares.. New York: New Directions, [1956]., 1956.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Cloth. Spine of dust jacket lightly browned. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has original $3.00 price on front flap. First trade edition. With Gaudier-Brzeska's portrait of Pound on front cover. Gallup A70b.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Personae. New Directions, NY, 1956.
Price: US$76.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Housed in a VG+ dustwrapper that was tape re-inforced at top and bottom of spine. Still, a nice, clean copy of this second impression of the first New Directions edition with the advertisement for Section: Rock-Drill on the rear d.w. flap. One of 3,340 copies. Ref.: Gallup A27b.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound. New Directions [1956], 1956.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 143 mm), [14], 273, [1] pages, in original blue cloth, gold titles to upper board and to spine, in an unclipped, gray dust jacket. A collection of Ezra Pound's poems up to 1949. This is a second impression, issued in 1956, of New Directions' so-called offset edition of 1949. The rear flap of the dust jacket contains an advertisement for Section: Rock-Drill, which New Directions issued in 1956. Gallup A27b, footnote. (Donald Gallup, Ezra Pound: A Bibliography). CONDITION: Fading to cloth titles, light toning to page edges, former owner's pencil notation to front paste down but otherwise clean and unmarked. The unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket is toned along the edges of the front panel and to the spine. Pencilled-in price to front flap (in addition to the same printed price). About Very Good overall.
Seller: Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA, Hopewell, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: First printing. Small octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; [6],107pp.; illus. Jacket spine and top extremities a bit toned, a few very tiny short closed tears, else Near Fine. GALLUP A70b.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los Cantares. A New Directions Book, (New York), 1956.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Light wear at the spine ends, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few tiny chips, and a toned spine with a small tear at the crown. One of 2081 copies. *Gallup* A70b.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 De Los Cantares. New Directions, Norfolk, 1956.
Price: US$86.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Written while Pound was incarcerated at St. Elizabeth's Hospital after being found mentally unfit to stand trial for treason. A superb copy, unmarked and unclipped, free of the usual offsetting, sunning or any darkening. . In an archival Mylar jacket cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los Cantares. A New Direction Book, (New York), 1956.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Topedge slightly foxed, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a a slightly toned spine. One of 2081 copies. *Gallup* A70b.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$102.85 + shipping
Description: First American (offset) edition, first printing; 8vo; slight age-toning, else unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth, silver lettering to spine, corners slightly rubbed, faint spotting to top edge, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket, spine and edges slightly toned, else very good. This section of the Cantos derives its name from the title of a review by Wyndham Lewis in the New Stateman and Nation (7 April 1951): 'The Rock Drill,' itself is a reference to Jacob Epstein's sculpture of the same name. One of 2081 copies printed by offset from the first edition. Gallup A70b.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
POUND, Ezra. Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los cantares. New Directions, (New York), 1956.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight spine-toning. One of 2081 copies. *Gallup* A70b.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra.. Section Rock-Drill 85-95 de Los Cantares.. N.Y:New Directions. 1956. Hardcover., 1956.
Price: US$155.00 + shipping
Description: 1st. ed. fine-d.j. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$232.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 107 pp. A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, scarce, true collectible gem! A wonderful copy! Solidly and tightly bound copy and dust jacket with moderate external and overall wear and use. Copy with crisp pages and clean text. Small rip on back cover near top of spine.
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.