Fenollosa, Ernest; Ezra Pound. The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. An Ars Poetica.. New York, Arrow Editions., 1936.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. With foreword and notes by Ezra Pound, Ideogramic Series I. -- Includes 5 plates of characters plus some in-text. -- Hardcover, nicely designed label on front cover, 52 pages. Condition: very good minus (spine and cover edges sunned) with good-only dust jacket (fragile and tanned spine is reverse-repaired with yellow material which shows through the couple of chips; flap intact). Pages are bright and sharp.

Seller: Bucks County Bookshop IOBA, Doylestown, PA, U.S.A.

Fenollosa, Ernest; Ezra Pound (Foreword). The Chinese Character as a Medium for Poetry. Arrow Editions, New York, 1936.

Price: US$46.18 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A decent copy of the first edition, first printing of a scarce book without dust jacket, the first of the Ideogramic Series, an Ars Poetica with foreword and notes by Ezra Pound. Very Good. Text is tight and clean. Appears unread or barely so. Lettering to front label is bright and unflaked, less so to spine label, which is lightly toned and still readable. Short closed split to spine crown, light sunning to front and rear board edges, a few tiny spots of scuffing to rear board. No marks or highlights in text. No previous owner's names. Not ex-lib. Not a Book Club Edition. Photos sent upon request. Accurate Descriptions/Quality Books/Unmatched Prices

Seller: Novel Ending Books, Franklin, TN, U.S.A.

( Pound, Ezra) Fenollosa, Ernest. The Chinese Written Character As a Medium for Poetry An Ars Poetica with a Foreword and Notes by Ezra Pound. New York: Arrow Editions 1936, 1936.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Pale green paper-covered boards, paper title label inset front panel and spine in plain paper dust jacket printed in green. Edges of boards faded, faint outline of water stain rear top edge, also along top edges of price-clipped, lightly chipped dust jacket. Despite apparent flaws, a clean, presentable copy handsomely printed by the Kynoch Press, Great Britain The Ideogramic Series 1edited by Ezra Pound Square 8vo 52 pages

Seller: Herland Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.

Fenollosa, Ernest, and Ezra Pound. The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. New York: Arrow Editions 1936, 1936.

Price: US$88.39 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Pale green paper-covered boards, paper title label inset front panel and spine in plain paper dust jacket printed in green. Edges of boards slightly worn, ow excellent, in original torn tape repaired dj. Despite dj flaws, a clean, presentable copy handsomely printed by the Kynoch Press, Great Britain ; The Ideogramic Series 1edited by Ezra Pound; Square 8vo; 52 pages. This is one of the Ideogramic Series which was edited by Ezra Pound. At the time of printing, the series had 3 volumes in it of which this is #1. Pound provided the foreword and notes for this edition, subtitled "An Ars Poetica". The notes which were finished by Pound from preliminary work by Fenollosa are commentaries on the ideograms themselves with paraphrased translations. Pound introduces his role in the finishing of the notes as being that of "a very ignorant man." The notes include 5 pages or plates of Chinese characters or ideograms.

Seller: Pali, Roma, RM, Italy

Fenollosa, Ernest; Pound, Ezra (foreword, notes). The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, An Ars Poetica. Arrow Editions, New York, 1936.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Green paper over boards, printed labels on upper board and spine; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 52, with 5 plates. Volume I in the "Ideogramic Series," edited by Ezra Pound. Head of spine perished; edges of boards a bit tanned and rubbed. Dust jacket a bit tanned (moreso along spine) and dusty; chipped at spine tips; not price-clipped, and presents nicely in mylar. Two-thousand sets of sheets were printed in England by The Kynoch Press, of which an unspecified number were used for Arrow Editions. Several hundred were destroyed during the London blitz.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

POUND, Ezra. ed.. The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry by Ernest Fenollosa.. NY: Arrow Editions (1936)., 1936.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Description: 52 pp. Faint sunning to spine and extrems, else fine in fine dust jacket with a touch of restoration to a short closed tear on the rear panel. Housed in a fine custom clamshell case with leather spine label. Penciled notation "inscribed by Pound" in Larry McMurtry's hand on the front flyleaf. Witter Bynner's bookplate inside the front board. Dated (year of pestilence a.d. 1947) and INSCRIBED by Pound, "Regretfully returned to W. Bynner." with the addition, "+ regards to A.C." = Alice Corbin, a mutual friend, early editor of POETRY. Gallup B36b.

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