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Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ezra Pound-centric issue of the celebrated Modernist journal. Founded in 1914, THE LITTLE REVIEW soon gained a reputation for its experimental approach to art, literature, and politics alike. This issue includes nine poems and other works by Pound, along with criticism by Ben Hecht and William Butler Yeats. A note to readers on the final page promises that Joyce's ULYSSES - whose first part had appeared in the March, 1918 issue - would "be continued in the next number." The publication of ULYSSES continued from 1919 to 1920, even while postal workers began to seize individual issues for obscenity. Anderson and Heap were convicted on the charge of obscenity in the subsequent February 1921 trial. ULYSSES was abandoned, only about half of it published. This disaster led to the iconic publication of the book by Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare & Company in 1922. When Anderson and Heap resumed publishing the journal after the trial, they removed its motto (found here): "Making No Compromise with the Public Taste." 8.5'' x 5.75''. Original saddle-stapled yellow printed wrappers. Chip to lower corner of front cover. Spine sunned. Pages toned.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Slim octavo (22.5cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; [3],4-65pp. Light wear and tanning to extremities and text edges, 1cm split to lower spine-fold, with wrappers just starting to pull away slightly from lower staple; Very Good+ or better. Well-preserved issue of Margaret Anderson's groundbreaking little magazine. The bulk of the issue is comprised of Ezra Pound's "A Study of Modern French Poets" (Laforgue, Corbiere, Rimbaud, de Gourmont, Verhaeren, Tailhade, Jammes, Romains, et al.), including Anderson's "The Chicago Grand Opera Invades New York," and a letter from Jane Heap. Uncommon. Gallup C327; Lohf & Sheehy, p.34.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.