Ezra POUND

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Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los cantares. Milano: All'Insegna del Pesce D'Oro, 1955. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona "in conformity with the typographical instructions given by the author." Gallup A70a. 8vo, original grey boards, acetate dust jacket. Very fine copy.
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Ripostes of Ezra Pound. Whereto Are Appended The Complete Poetical Works Of T. E. Hulme With Prefatory Note. London: Stephen Swift & Co. Ltd. 1912. First edition, with the usual misprint in the list of books by Pound. Gallup A8a. Ripostes contains several of Pound's best early poems, including "Portrait D'Une Femme", "An Object", "The Seafarer" & "The Return". The book is dedicated...
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Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the Manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, Chosen and Finished by Ezra Pound, with an Introduction by William Butler Yeats. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1916. First edition. One of 350 numbered copies. Gallup A12. Wade 269. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Bookplate & bookseller's label on front paste-down, corners a little bumped, otherwise a fine copy.
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Personae of Ezra Pound. London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. First edition, in the first issue binding, of Pound's first regularly published book. Out of a total edition of 1000 copies, not more than 500 sets of sheets were subsequently bound up with left over sheets of Exultations in a single...
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A Draft of XXX Cantos. Paris: Hours Press, 1930. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies printed on Canson Montgolfier paper. Gallup A31a. Connolly 100, 66. Pound himself suggested, and supervised, the publication of A Draft of XXX Cantos: "Having absorbed the fundamentals of printing while serving as editor of...
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The Cantos. London: Faber & Faber, (1968). New Collected edition (cantos 1-109), second impression. Inscribed in Italian by Pound on the half-title page: "a la (_?) Diana B(_?). augri (_?) feliciter. Ezra Pound. Venezia fifth of march 1971". After being released from St. Elizabeth's Hospital in 1958...
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Canzoni. London: Elkin Mathews, 1911. First edition, first issue. One of 1000 copies printed, of which "not more than 500" were later issued as part of the combined volume Canzoni & Ripostes (1913). Gallup A7. Presentation copy from Olivia Shakespear, one of the two dedicatees of...
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Opere Scelte. A cura di Mary de Rachewiltz. Introduzione di Aldo Tagliaferri. (Milano): Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, (1970). First edition, edited by Pound's daughter, and comprising a selected works, of which there was no equivalent English or American edition. Gallup D81h. Inscribed, and signed twice, by Pound to "John Skelton" in a fragile hand on the half-title at...
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Thrones: 96-109 de los cantares. Milan: All'Insegna del Pesce D'Oro, 1959. First edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona "in conformity with the typographical instructions of the author." Gallup A77. 8vo, original grey boards, acetate dust jacket. Very fine copy.
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Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII. London: Faber and Faber, The Stone Wall Press, Iowa City, (1968). First edition, the English issue. Limited to 310 copies printed by The Stone Wall Press on Umbria paper and signed by Pound; this copy marked "out of series. 4to, original cloth with printed spine...
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Exultations. London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. First edition, presumed first issue with "of" in the title on the front cover. Of an edition of 1000 copies, approximately 500 sets of sheets were later bound together with sheets from Personae in a single volume. Gallup A4a. Exultations includes...
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