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Ezra Pound. SELECTED POEMS. Faber & Gwyer, London, 1928.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 184p. A green cloth hardcover book in good+ condition. Spine tanned and spotted with light stains. Faint speckling and rub marks on the covers, and corners lightly bumped. Endpapers foxed and tanned. Corner creased on page 69. Scattered finerprint smudges, but otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Edited with an introduction by T.S. Eliot. This is the first trade edition, following the signed limited edition.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
POUND, Ezra; ELIOT, T. S. (introduction). Selected Poems.. London Faber & Gwyer, 1928.
Price: US$1512.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, trade issue; 8vo; Poetry Bookshop sticker at base of front paste down, very mild toning to page stock, lightly spotting to the endpapers; publisher's green cloth, titles to spine gilt, green topstain, trivial fading to cloth at the very tips of the spine in the somewhat tanned and lightly chipped dust-jacket. In his capacity as publisher this is Eliot's homage to his friend and editor - a crucial publication in Pound's career. The jacket is particularly prone to wear - the present example being for nicer than most. Faber also issued an edition of 100 signed copies.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
POUND, Ezra. Selected Poems. Faber & Gwyer, London, 1928.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, limited issue. Octavo. 184pp. Quarter vellum and gray papercovered boards with gilt spine lettering, gilt topedge, and untrimmed edges. Near fine with two small rectangles of offsetting on both of the front and rear free end papers, toning to the spine and with the corners ever so slightly bumped and and abraded, lacking the original unprinted glassine dust jacket but housed in a custom clamshell box. One of 100 copies Signed and numbered. This is copy number 5. Gallup A30b.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$4831.77 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, signed limited issue, number 84 of 100 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author. The signed issue was published on 10 December 1928, following the trade issue of 23 November. In his introduction to this important edition of Pound's poetry, T. S. Eliot gives an extended commentary on the originality of Pound's work, his influences ("Browning and Yeats. Swinburne and William Morris"), and the ways he has been read and misread by some of his contemporaries. Gallup, Pound, A30b; Eliot B10b. Octavo. Original quarter vellum, grey paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Spine lightly soiled, as often, hint of wear to extremities, small ink stain to p. ix, contents otherwise clean. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom