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Laughlin, James. Gists & piths: a memoir of Ezra Pound. Windhover Press, Iowa [City], 1982.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 250 copies, this one of 225 without the signed postcard from Pound; 8vo, pp. [2], 22, [2]; printed in red and black, title page blindstamped with the likeness of Pound's head; fine copy in original brown cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper label on spine, but without the separately printed slip concerning Laughlin's donation of the post cards to the University of Iowa Foundation. From the library of Kim Merker. James Laughlin was editor of New Directions, and over the course of his relationship with Pound, received better than 1500 letters from him. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 79.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Laughlin, James. Gists & piths: a memoir of Ezra Pound. Windhover Press, Iowa [City], 1982.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 250 copies, this 1/225 without the signed postcard from Pound; 8vo, [2] & 22pp., printed in red and black, title-p. blindstamped with the likeness of Pound's head; fine copy in original brown cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper label on spine. Jame Laughlin was editor of New Directions, and over the course of his relationship with Pound, received better than 1500 letters from him.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Original quarter brown goatskin, fine, boxed as issued. One of 25 special signed copies, which include a postcard from Pound to the author, and a printed slip concerning Laughlin's donation of the post cards to the University of Iowa Foundation. The postcard, dated 6 June 1938, typed on both sides, with Pound's handwritten annotations, signed with initial, shows Pound's concern with the design of "Guide to Kulchur": "In absorbing KULCH/ I trust you will suppress St Simon Stylites wrapper and if possible ascertain WHO committed it. St J/ was served on a platter/ waaal mebbe the to is intended as a platter/ but the violation of ideogramic principles wd/ only confuse our compatriots . also if they are printing you new copies/ get the frontispiece LEVEL. " New Directions took over 520 sets of sheets of the Faber edition and issued them under the title "Culture", changing the wrapper design.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Laughlin, James. Gists & piths: a memoir of Ezra Pound. Windhover Press, Iowa [City], 1982.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 250 copies, this the first (number 1) of 25 copies signed by the author and with the original signed postcard from Pound inside the rear cover pocket; 8vo, pp. [2], 22, [2]; printed in red and black; title page embossed with the likeness of Pound's head; fine copy in original brown niger-backed paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt on spine. Also, with a printed slip concerning Laughlin's donation of the post cards to the University of Iowa Foundation. From the library of Kim Merker. This particular postcard (postmarked Oct. 22, 1937) is addressed by Pound in type to James Laughlin (and with a forwarding address added in ink likely by a New Directions employee); the body of the text is typed with four additions by Pound in ink, the whole signed in ink, 'E.P.' A typically manic Pound creation: In part: "I suppose some supposer supposed that representin "Globe" here iz th same as Globating the representation etc / in the there / otherwise there is one born ever 3 minutes." Here, Pound inserts in ink: "Besides it may be over by now." He continues: "re Pell / IZ he Pell of Livright? and what does he mean a difference??? . anyhow the sommer the cash comes in the sooner it can go OUT that is called circulation . PS / about old Bill / dn it I HAVE an opinion as with Marianne / for years I bat it into the brick stupidity of the pubk till someone prints 'em and then they xpect me to HAVE an opinion / they havin don non of the constructy . Why don't they do a bit of work getting ME into circulation." James Laughlin was editor of New Directions, and over the course of his relationship with Pound, received better than 1500 letters from him. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 79.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.