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POUND, Ezra. Umbra. Elkin Mathews, London, 1920.
Price: US$300.73 + shipping
Description: Octavo : pp. (6) 7-128 : leaves untrimmed : grey papered boards over cloth spine lettered in black. Spine is toned, small splash mark to lower corner of top board, which is also lightly bumped; dent to tail of top board; endpapers with patches of abrasion and marks consistent with a cover having been taped to the book then roughly removed; endpapers also toned; light foxing; previous owner name in ink to ffep and dated 1934; small Angus and Robertson sticker to front pastedown. A humble copy that despite cosmetic imperfections is still sound. "Ezra Pound is widely considered one of the most influential and most difficult poets of the 20th century; his contributions to Modernist poetry are enormous. He was an early champion of a number of avant-garde and Modernist poets, developed important channels of intellectual and aesthetic exchange between the United States and Europe, and contributed to important literary movements." (Poetry Foundation online) His engagement with the WWII axis of power caused endless debate about his politics and its place in his poetry, but few deny his legacy as an important and prolific poet and supporter of some of writers such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, W.B. Yeats, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, H.D., and Ernest Hemingway.
Seller: Archives Fine Books (ANZAAB, ILAB), Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Pound, Ezra. Umbra : the early poems of Ezra Pound 1920 [Hardcover]. Elkin Mathews, 1920.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition after signed limited. 1920 Elkin Mathews paper over canvas spine. Bookplate front pastedown, glue remnant and Shakespeare and Co label rear pastedown. Tight and unmarked with a few pages showing edge damage due to improper cutting at the binder. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$424.00 + shipping
Description: First Trade Edition (one of 1,000 copies), collecting previously published early poems ("All that he now wishes to keep in circulation") and some translations. Crown 8vo (190 x 138mm): 128pp. Publisher's fawn quarter-bound canvas over grey paper-covered boards, upper cover and spine stamped in navy blue, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Wanting the rarely encountered duck-egg blue dust jacket. Ex-libris of Leolyn Louise Everett and contemporary London bookseller's ticket to front paste-down. Spine darkened just a degree or two, end papers toned, first and final leaves very lightly spotted, but a collectible copy with excellent provenance. Gallup A20. A signed limited issue was published the same year. Pound's poetic farewell to London, published before leaving for Paris and turning to writing more or less nothing but cantos for the rest of his poetic career. With translations from Guido Cavalcanti and Arnaut Daniel and poems by T. E. Hulme. The poet Leolyn Louise Everett, whose book this was, was the daughter of Henry A. Everett, the railroad industrialist who introduced the street railway to Cleveland. After returning from Italy in 1914 she met the composer Timothy Mather Spelman (1891-1970) in New York. They married and in 1919 settled in Florence, where they bought the Villa Razzolini in the hills of Arcetri, which became a meeting place for intellectuals, perhaps among them Pound. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra. Umbra. Elkin Mathews, London, 1920.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's grey paper covered boards over linen spine cloth, printed in dark blue. Very Good with light bowing to boards, rubbing to corners, toning to spine cloth, previous owner bookplate to front paste down and name to front free end paper, contents toned. A nice copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
POUND Ezra. Umbra. The Early Poems. , 1920.
Price: US$606.11 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original linen spine over grey paper boards, lettered in blue, fore and lower edges untrimmed. London, Elkin Mathews. With translations from Guido Cavalcanti and Arnaut Daniel and poems by T.E. Hulme. The last leaf contains Pound's typology of his work in this volume, and his oeuvre so far, leaving out the Cantos, probably as a justification of his choice over that of Mathews the publisher, who had his own ideas of what should be included. Gallup A20a, 1000 copies printed. Endpapers toned, a few faint spots to the top board.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra. Umbra. Elkin Mathews, London, 1920.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's grey paper covered boards over linen spine cloth, printed in dark blue. Near Fine with light bumping to edges, toning to edges and spine cloth. Small bookseller ticket to front paste down, endsheets offset, faint cigar smoke odor to page. A nice copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Pound, Ezra.. Umbra The Early Poems of Ezra Pound.. London:Elkin Mathews. 1920. Hardcover., 1920.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: 1st. ed. fine. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1539.31 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 128, crown 8vo, original quarter fawn linen and grey boards, lettered in black to upper board and backstrip, the latter with a few light spots, edges roughtrimmed and browned, free endpapers browned in part, small Japanese newspaper clipping (with ms. note '24.2.21 E. Pound') folded and laid in between Contents Page and first page of text with offset browning to both, the scarce printed dustjacket present (lacking backstrip panel, the portion of which displaying title is laid in at front), browned with some chipping, good. One of 1,000 copies in the trade edition. The dustjacket, recorded by Gallup, is seldom encountered; from the flaps we can see that it was originally a duck-egg blue - the typography has an Oriental touch that is not inappropriate. (Gallup A20a)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Pound, Ezra. Umbra. Elkin Mathews, London, 1920.
Price: US$3800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, signed limited issue. Number 98 of 100 copies numbered and signed by Ezra Pound. Bound in publisher's grey paper covered boards over vellum spine lettered in gilt. Jack Yeats-designed bookplate of former owner San Francisco poet Frederick Reid and his wife to front paste down. Near Fine with light toning to edges of boards and endsheets. A beautiful copy. Gallop A20b.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra. Umbra: The Early Poems of Ezra Pound. Elkin Mathews, London, 1920.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Quarter cloth and printed paper over boards. Ink owner name and small bookplate of translator and publisher Roger Senhouse, with small bookseller ticket and hint of toning to the bottom edge, else fine in very good toned dust jacket with some chipping, small tears and creasing at the edges, and chemise and custom slipcase. One of 1000 copies. Senhouse was a co-owner of Secker & Warburg, the translator of several works by Colette, and the last partner of writer and Bloomsbury Group member, Lytton Strachey. A nice association copy of this cheaply constructed volume in its rare original dust jacket. Gallup A20.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.