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Price: US$148.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp.x, 251 pages, a very good plus hardback, publisher's original dark green cloth binding with gold gilt lettering to the spine. Top page edges also gold gilt. The book is extremely well bound - tight and square with sharp corner edges & is completely clean (no inscriptions ever added). The only flaw is you can just about see a reading crease (silhouette) in the spine.
Seller: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, United Kingdom
Ezra Pound. The Spirit of Romance. J.M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Spirit Of Romance 1910 Near Fine Minus 1 of only 1250 copies Additional photos available upon request J.M. Dent & Sons LTD.
Seller: D & L Fine Books, Richboro, PA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. The Spirit of Romance. J. M. Dent and Sons, 1910.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An Attempt to Define Somewhat the Charm of the Pre-Renaissance Literature of Latin Europe, the first British edition published by J. M. Dent in 1910. First state, bound in publisher's olive brown cloth. Top edge gilt. (Gallup A5a). A very good copy with some light mottling to the olive cloth and foxing to the preliminaries, light stain at upper corner of last two pages.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Ezra Pound. The Spirit of Romance. J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, 1910.
Price: US$288.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Spirit of Romance, Ezra Pound, 1910, J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, First, Rare Rarely seen. "An Attempt to Define Somewhat the Charm of the Pre-Renaissance Literature of Latin Europe", bound in publisher's olive brown cloth blind stamped to the front with gilt lettering to the spine and a gilt top edge. Publisher's page printed in black and red. A very good copy with some age darkening to the olive cloth, a couple of small tears to the top of the spine and generally light foxing throughout. A pencil inscription to the front endpaper is removable. Will be dispatched carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and a cardboard box.
Seller: Grimes Hill Book Club, Wythall, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: x, 251 pp. Original cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Bookplate to front pastedown. Foxing throughout, occasionally heavy, also to endpapers & fore-edge. Gallup A5. VG 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra. The Spirit of Romance. J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1910.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [1910]. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's first binding, olive brown with publisher's device in blind on upper cover, lettered in gilt on spine, top edge gilt. Near Fine with light fading to cloth at spine and top edge of upper board. Offsetting to endsheets, foxing to textblock edge and to several sporadic leaves throughout. Pound's literary criticism of a variety of European literature, based on lectures he delivered at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London between 1908 and 1909. Gallup A5a.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Olive cloth, spine stamped in gilt, blind device on upper cover. Foxing, extremities and spine a bit rubbed, with short snags at crown, but a good, sound copy. First edition, second binding, of Pound's first major volume of criticism. This is an interesting association copy, with the ownership signature of Schuyler B. Jackson, dated "15/8/21." A total of 1250 sets of sheets were printed, of which three hundred sets were used for the American issue, and an unspecified number of copies were bound up in this slightly later binding. GALLUP A5a.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$574.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's grey/green cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt the others untrimmed, cloth rather marked and stained, else very good. A very important group of essays founded on Pound's early and continuing interest in this subject.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$630.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This book is in good/very good condition. The first printing of this book included 1250 books, of which 300 were for the American market - this being one of the 300. Provenance: Ex Libris inside the front cover for Alfred A. Knopf and containing the profile of, Frédéric François Chopin. On the first page is an inscription reading, "December 21, 1910 - Comparative Literature I." In 1910/11 Aldred A. Knopf Sr. was a student at Columbia University in New York and soon to meet his future wife, Blanche Wolf Knopf, with whom he shared a mutual love of books and eventually started their famous publishing house together. The book is bound in a brown cloth over boards. The condition of the cover is good+ with some wear and slight rounding to the corners, shelf wear to the bottom, creases to the edges of the spine, and a small tear and small loss of cloth at the top of the spine. Bottom and long fore edge are deckled. Top fore edge is smoothed and gilded. Printed in Edinburgh by Turnbull and Spears. Text is clean with a few underlined notes; including, "No man could think base thoughts who looked on her," (page 93). Pages:(10) 252 Dimensions:8¼ x 6 x 1½.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.