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Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 119 pp. Grey paper boards over parchment spine and corner tips, spine lettered in gilt. Exterior front hinge cracked, with corresponding tear on front pastedown, but holding; exterior rear hinge separating for several inches from top edge. A fragile book. Gallup B4a.
Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Ezra Pound. The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti. Small, Maynard and Company, 1912.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardbound, no dust jacket. 1st edition. Boards show bumping to corners & mild wear. Vellum spine over grey cloth boards. Previous owner's name in ink on front free end page.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti. Small, Maynard, 1912.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition with "Maddox" (sic) on dedication page. Rear hinge cracked, bookplate on front free endpaper, wear at top and bottom of spine, but otherwise in decent condition, with gilt still legible on spine.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti. Small Maynard and Company, Boston, 1912.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first American edition, published by Small and Maynard in 1912. Bound in vellum to spine and tips and blue paper covered boards. A near fine copy with wear to the head of the spine and prior owner's signature/bookplate to pastedown. Translated and introduced by Ezra Pound.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$373.99 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Bound with gilt title to ribbed japanese vellume spine, and japanese vellum corners, blue paper to boards, a little dust soil and rubbing to head and heel of spine, otherwise fine.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 119pp; gray boards with imitation vellum spine and tips. One of an unknown number of copies, preceding the English edition, handsomely printed on laid paper. As with certain of Pound's other translations, this has been unjustly consigned to Gallup's "B" section. Gallup B4a. Partly uncut, fine and bright with slight wear at crown
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Ezra Pound. Sonnets and Ballete of Guido Cavalcanti. Small and Maynard & Co., Boston, 1912.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bookseller Image More images The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti Pound, Ezra (translation and introduction) and Cavalcanti, Guido Bookseller: Copperfield & Twist Books (East Palestine, OH, U.S.A.) Bookseller Rating: Quantity Available: 1 Book Description: Small, Maynard and Company, Boston, 1912.: Very Good to very good overall, interior fine. First Edition - First issue 4to. With 119 pages. This American edition is the true first printing, issued before the British edition. "Maddox" is misspelled in the dedication, corrected in the later British version. Not often found clean or in good shape, this copy is unusually well-conditioned, with no major flaws or marks, showing only occasional, brief, minor signs of use or age. The boards are covered in gray paper, which is remarkably free of the soiling generally found on this volume. The spine and the corner tips are in ivory Japanese vellum, with clean, bright embossed gilt lettering on the spine. Several of the pages (unopened) at the edges, as originally issued by the publisher. The head of the spine is worn a tad. missing a fraction of about an of the spine vellum. Note only known signed copy by the author by Ez with his signature logo Ez on the title page in bold ink, rare thus. Early signed Pounds are rare, as it was the case that Pound retreated in later life and was reluctant to sign his earlier books, which are rare in themselves. lovely overall
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.