Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The April 1928 2nd printing of Ezra Pound's translation of "The Great Learning" by Ta Hio. Solid and VG- in its dark card wrappers, with notable chipping along the spine and the panel edges. Internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings to speak of. Number 14 in the University of Washington Chapbooks, edited by Glenn Hughes.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First printing of the first edition. 35 pages. Ex-library copy, very clean.
Seller: Tinakori Books, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (same date on copyright and title pages, with no additional printings cited). VG/Fair. Small book measures 5-1/8" x 7-1/4", 35 pages, stapled binding, stiff card stock covers, uncut pages, deckle edges. Very small stain top front, about 1-1/2" long, less than 1/8" deep (visible in picture), otherwise covers are clean. Contents clean throughout, unmarked, a little rust on the staples, the text pages have been opened but the prelims are uncut. Jacket is heavily chipped on all edges, folds are fragile. This is number fourteen in the University of Washington's chapbook series. The first edition of this work is very scarce.
Seller: The BookChase, Wiscasset, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second Printing. 5 x 7.25'. Gallup A28a; one of 575 copies printed (the entire and only American edition). The first of Pound's attempted translations of one of the great Chinese classics (usually attributed to both Confucius and Tsang Tsu; see 'Note' on page [6]), and one of the rarer Glenn Hughes productions in the University of Washington Chapbooks series.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 35, (5)pp. Wraps. D.j. Uncut. Though unstated, edition limited to 575 copies.
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Black paper wraps slightly rubbed with chips to extremities and tape repair to front fly very good over stiff tan wrappers, fine. One of 575 copies printed. University of Washington Chapbook Number 14, edited by Glenn Hughes. *Gallup* A34a.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, 35pp; original black wrappers, printed in gold. One of only 575 copies in the edition. Gallup A28a. Chipping to spine; edges rubbed, very good, delicate
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$579.72 + shipping
Description: Second impression (published in the same month as the first, also in an edition of only 575 copies.) Small octavo. 35 pages. One page of adverts at rear. Original integral black wrappers.Presentation copy, inscribed in Pound's distinctive hand on the front free endpaper: "hommage du traducteur".The extremely fragile covers are marked, rubbed and chipped. Good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$605.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 575 copies; 8vo; minor marks to fore-edge, else unmarked internally; original gilt stamped black paper wrappers, folded over stiff tan blanks, edges untrimmed, some chipping to edges, gilt slightly dulled, else very good. The first of Pound's translations of one of the great Chinese classics, attributed to both Confucius and Tsang Tsu. Gallup A28a.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED SECOND PRINTING. 1 vol., signed in full on the front blank endleaf, original gilt stamped black card wrappers, card flaps attached and present, a much better copy then often encountered, VERY GOOD+
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.