Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Ezra Pound. The Fifth Decad of Cantos. New Directions, New York, 1937.
Price: US$155.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Internally clean, unmarked copy with firm hinges although FFEP heavily tanned, lightly bumped corners with light exposure to tips. Black boards remain shiny as do silver titles to spine. Light wear to spine ends. Tight copy. No DJ. BP/Case
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Ezra Pound. The Fifth Decad of Cantos. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1937.
Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Slight wear at head of spine and to corners of DJ, but otherwise a near fine, bright copy. ; 1/419 copies of a total edition of 750. 2nd issue. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Loud Bug Books, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. The Fifth Decad of Cantos. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn, 1937.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 419 copies issued by New Directions in 1940 with a cancel title-page, but in the dust jacket of the original Farrar and Rinehart issue. The jacket is somewhat dust-soiled, worn at edges and corners, and missing a triangular 3/4 inch piece at head of spine. Still an attractive copy of a scarce book--the entire edition was only 750 copies. Size: 8vo
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. The Fifth Decad Of Cantos. New Directions, New York, 1937.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine in black cloth boards in Near Fine Farrar Straus dust jacket with price of $1.50. The third instalment, ten more cantos, of Pound's greatest poem. Poetry
Seller: Nightingale Books, stoughton, MA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. The Fifth Decad of Cantos. New Directions / Farrar & Rinehart, Norfolk CT, 1937.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Black cloth; jacket is Farrar & Rinehart with $1.50 price on flap ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 46 pages
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra.. THE FIFTH DECAD OF CANTOS.. New Directions: Norfolk, Conn, 1937.
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Description: 9 x 6, cloth, 46 pp, cornes bumped, ink name and date, else ok in Farrar & Rinehart dw which is moderately soiled, r8bbed, edge torn and lightly chipped dw. With cancelled title page.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. The Fifth Decad of Cantos. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1937.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, second issue with cancel title. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight tanning to the spine and tiny nicks at the extremities. A very nice copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. The Fifth Decad of Cantos. New Directions, New York, 1937.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition, second issue (one of 419 copies of the first issue, purchased from Farrar and Rinehart and issued by New Directions with a cancel title-leaf). Octavo. Black cloth stamped in silver on spine. Fine, bright copy in price-clipped very slightly toned else fine dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. THE FIFTH DECAD OF CANTOS. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1937.
Price: US$485.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Second issue, (Gaallup A43c), 1937 on verso of title page but issued summer, 1940. ONE OF ONLY 419 COPIES of the first issue of 750 copies, purchased from Farrar & Rinehart and issued by New Directions with a cancel title-pag e leaf. Dustwrapper identical to first issue. Light foxing to the endpapers as usual else fine in dw showing very light use indeed. Quite scarce.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
POUND, Ezra. The Fifth Decad of Cantos. Farrar and Rinehart, New York, 1937.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition, first issue with Farrar and Rinehart imprint. The total edition was 750 copies, some 419 of which were purchased by and used for the second issue by New Directions with a new titlepage in 1940. This copy is one of a scant 331 copies issued by the original publisher in 1937, making this one the scarcest trade issues of Pound's Cantos, the third installment of Pound's monumental work, containing Cantos XLII - LI, praised on the rear flap by Ernest Hemingway, as well as by T.S. Eliot and Ford Madox Ford. A seminal work in the modernist canon. Small finger smudge on fore-edge, else quite a tight, fine copy in a bright, crisp equally fine dust jacket with the original $1.50 price intact. Very scarce in the right issue and in this condition.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.