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Fenollosa, Ernest ; Ezra Pound (Ed. by). THE CHINESE WRITTEN CHARACTER AS A MEDIUM FOR POETRY, AN ARS POETICA (IDEOGRAMIC SERIES I.). Stanley Nott, London, 1936.

Price: US$43.20 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: FIRST EDITION. Former library copy with pockets removed from front endpapers and library stamps to title page and p 7. Page 51, library perforation has been cut out but replaced. Sunning to spine and extremities. Age-tanning. Corners are a bit worn but not frayed. Black lettering debossed to spine of grass-green, cloth-covered boards. Five plates. 52 pp "with some notes by a very ignorant man". With a foreword and notes by Ezra Pound. "In his search through unknown art ,Fenollosa, coming upon unknown motives and principles unrecognized in the West, was already led into many modes of thought since fruitful in "new" Western painting and poetry. He was a forerunner without knowing it and without being known as such," (Ezra Pound).

Seller: The Sensible Magpie, Creswell, OR, U.S.A.

Fenollosa, Ernest. The Chinese Written Character As a Medium for Poetry An Ars Poetica with a Foreword and Notes by Ezra Pound. Stanley Nott, GB, 1936.

Price: US$50.68 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Endpapers bit browned. Entire DW (5s net) is faded and marked over spine.

Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom

Fenollosa, Ernest. The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. With Forword and Notes by Ezra Pound. Stanley Nott, London, 1936.

Price: US$55.69 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very good small quarto with vellum. 52pp. No dustjacket. Unmarked.

Seller: Theologia Books, La Charite sur Loire, France

Ernest Fenollosa. The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. Stanley Nott, 1936.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Forward by Ezra Pound. Dust jacket shelfworn and tan.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Ernest Fenollosa, Edited By Ezra Pound. The Chinese Written Character. Stanley Nott, London, 1936.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: First printing of the first edition (as indicated by no additional printings and/or editions listed on the copyright page) Illustrated. A very good plus copy with light tanning to the front free endpaper where a newpaper clipping had been laid in. The dust jacket (not price clipped) is also very good plus with moderate tanning to the spine area. Presents well. BX15

Seller: J. F. Whyland Books, Jeffersonville, IN, U.S.A.

Fenollosa, Ernest; Pound, Ezra. The Chinese Written Character. Stanley Nott, London, 1936.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Foreword and Notes by Ezra Pound. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (5s. net), generally toned, a few stains. Quarter white paper with black cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a black top stain, signature of statistician J.F. Anscombe on the front endpaper, clean internally. The first book in the Ideogramic series, a re-publication of Fenollosa's essay dealing with the poetric moods in Chinese.

Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.