Ezra Pound from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. First edition. 8vo., black cloth, pp. 302. Near fine in dust jacket...

Norfolk: New Directions, (1940). First American edition. 8vo., red cloth with printed white paper spine label, pp. vii, 207. "700 sets of sheets with reprinted title-leaf and its conjugate were imported by New Directions and specially bound and jacketed for sale in the United States". Foxing to page edges, endpapers and gutters of first several pages, name/date on endpaper, original… Read more

Chicago: Henry Regnery, (1965). First American edition. Octavo, gray cloth, pp. 180; illustrated. The fore-edge is a trifle foxed, else the book is fine in dust jacket..

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, (1995). First edition. Octavo, black cloth, pp. [xi), 256. Fine in dust jacket..

Milano: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, (1954). First collected edition, one of 1,000 copies. this copy not numbered. 12mo., pale blue paper wrappers, folded over stiff cream blanks, cloth, pp. [101]. Text in Italian. "This is a reprint of the texts of the three pamphlets, [Oro e lavoro; L'America, Roosevelt e le cause della guerra presente; Introduzione alla natura economica degli… Read more

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1981). First edition, cloth issue. Octavo, blue cloth, pp. xii, 476; illustrated. The book is fine, the dust jacket is very good with some rubbing..

Milano: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1956. First edition, #272 of 1,000 copies. 12mo., gray paper wrappers, folded over stiff white blanks, cloth, pp. 82. Darkening to page edges, else a lovely fine copy in heavily chipped glassine wrapper. Gallup A71..

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, (1969). First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, very good, price-clipped dust jacket..

London: Faber and Faber, (1966). First English edition. Octavo, blue cloth, pp. viii, [216]. Several of Pounds letters are reproduced in facsimile. A trifle foxed along the top page edge, else a near fine copy in dust jacket. See notes on the English edition under Gallup B83..

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, (1963). First edition. 8vo., plum cloth, pp. 454. A volume in Hart-Davis's Soho Bibliographies series. Gallup published a revised and updated this bibliography in 1983. Light browning to endpapers, else near fine in a very good dust jacket, lightly soiled on the rear panel, and slightly worn at the head of the spine. An attractive copy in… Read more

London: Faber and Faber, (1934). First edition. 8vo., green cloth, pp. vii, 407. 1,600 copies printed. Second state binding in coarse grain cloth. Name/date/place on front paste-down, covers show light bumping to corner tips and rubbing to colour along the bottom edge, else near fine in a very good, spine-toned dust jacket, with small chips out of the top edge,… Read more

(London): Anthony d'Offay, (1982). First edition. Octacvo, wire-stitched card covers, pp 23; illustrated. Designed and printed at the Curwen Press. Fine..

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo., navy blue cloth, pp. [ix], 231; three plates. Number of copies printed unknown. Some scarring to frontispiece, darkening to page edges, rear cover has scuffing, soiling and faint staining, else a very good copy. No dust jacket. Gallup A27a..

(New York): New Directions, (1958). First edition. Octavo, maroon cloth, pp. xi, 243. 4,000 copies printed. Collection of early works, many of which were previously published in little magazines, pamphlets, or long out of print books. Some pieces appear here for the first time. Lower corner of front board has been soundly bumped, page edges are tanned, else very good… Read more

London: Neville Spearman, (1956). First edition. Octavo, red cloth, pp. xxiii, 66. 1000 copies were printed. Bookseller's ticket on first blank, spine slightly slanted, else very good in a price-clipped dust jacket, with some moderate wear to the spine ends and corner tips, some darkening and a small faint stain to the front panel. Gallup A72a..

(New York): New Directions, (N.d, but 1952). New edition, with additional material. 8vo., black cloth, pp. 379. Eliot's intro is approximately 6pp. 3500 copies printed. Fine in a very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket, with tiny closed tears to the spine ends, light overall rubbing and some edge wear. An attractive copy in a mylar dust jacket protector. Gallup A45c..… Read more

(Albany): State University of New York Press, (1991). First edition. Octavo, pictorial boards, pp. [xv], 249. A volume in the SUNY Series, The Margins of Literature. Light bumps to the lower corners of the covers, else a near fine copy, as issued without dust jacket..

Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1989). First edition. 8vo., black cloth, pp. xxiii, 103. Fine in dust jacket..

Orono: University of Maine, (1974). First edition. Octavo, red cloth, pp. xii, 187. With useful index of allusions to both Dante's "Comedy", and Pound's "Cantos". Fine copy, no dust jacket..

New York: New Directions, (1957). First American (offset) edition. Octavo, black cloth, pp. xxiii, 66. All 3,000 sets of sheets that were printed omitted the last two lines on page 24. The publisher retained only eleven copies thus, and the next 999 copies had a cancel leaf inserted at page 24 [as here]. The remaining sheets were subsequently bound with… Read more