Personae

Hardcover. Original blue cloth, faded and worn; enclosed in blue cloth box. New Directions (New York, James Laughlin 1949). New (Offset) Edition. Gallup A27B. Presentation copy inscribed from Pound to a literary critic. "Mr. . . . Aug. 56 Ezra Pound." With the recipient's notes in the text. A nice copy.

New York 1926 (1949): New Directions Gallup A27b. First Edition Thus, with additional apendices dated 1949. Near Fine in pale blue cloth, the usual dulling to spine and offsets to end pages from dust jacket, 1: faint stain bottom edge of spine, in a Very Good Plus first issue oatmeal colored dust jacket lettered in pale blue, spine a… Read more about this item

London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. First edition, first issue. Bibliographer David Gallup's copy from his collection with his characteristic hologrpah slip laid in with "A3a 1st binding" in pencil. A rebacked copy with original boards and endpages and original spine affixed to gray-linen quarter-cloth. Gilt lettering on front board and spine intact. Original spine chipped on one edge; boards with minimal… Read more about this item

New Directions, [1956]. Second printing of this edition in dust jacket. Book is very good or better with a bump to the foredge of the front cover, minimal wear to the spine ends and bottom edges; bookplate of Joyce Haber, a gossip columnist for the LOS ANGELES TIMES from 1966 to 1975. The dust jacket is pale grey with… Read more about this item

NY&: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. Blue cloth, gilt titles; light fraying to page outsides, slightest fading, due to age; text is clean and bright, unmarked. Light edgewear of boards. Spine tight. Dj is in 5 pieces, seperated at the seams, and is misisng the lower 1/2… Read more about this item

New York: A New Directions Book (Horace Liveright), 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. Possibly a sixth impression in the variant blue cloth. Octavo. 231pp. Frontispiece portrait of Pound by Gaudier-Brzeska. Illustrated with three black and white plates. Gilt-stamped blue cloth. Newspaper offsetting on front endpapers, extremities rubbed, faint soiling, spine lightly tanned, very good being Elizabeth McFarland's copy with… Read more about this item

New York: New Directions, 1926. [1949 edition]. Original Cloth. Good/Fair. pp: (xii), 273; frontispiece portrait, two plates. Bound in light blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover; In the original tan, pulp-paper dust jacket printed in blue, a two-inch piece gone from the shelfback, and tanning of the cloth and endpapers; prior owner's bookplate on front pastedown.… Read more about this item

London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, second issue, with spine titles measuring 1.5 cm. 12mo. Spine quite tanned and a faint tidemark on the front board, still a sound and attractive good copy. One of 500 copies.

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1990. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: New Directions, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition thus, with additional poems. Octavo. 273pp. Frontispiece portrait of Pound by Gaudier-Brzeska. A bit of light spotting on the boards, else near fine in attractive near fine dustwrapper with second issue ads on rear flap and with slight soiling and toning. A handsome copy.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Large octavo. Frontispiece by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. A collection of all of Ezra Pound's poems published to that date except the unfinished Cantos. Ownership signature, corners and edge of spine a little bumped, a small spot on rear board, else a near fine copy. *Gallup* A27a.

London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing; first issue. Bound in publisher's grey paper-covered boards stamped in gilt. Very Good or better, with some rubbing to covers and some light, sporadic foxing.

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1990. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New Directions, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Full blue cloth boards with gilt lettering under brown paper dust jacket, 8-3/4" x 5-3/4", 273 pp., $3.50 price intact on front flap, rear flap has no mention of "Rock Drill". Minor toning to edges of covers, offsetting from flaps to endpapers, minor toning to front panel of jacket, very shallow… Read more about this item

NO DW. Good tight clean reading copy. Owners sig on fep

New Directions, 1971 Sixth printing of Pound's collected shorter poems, trace of shelfwear.

New York: New Directions / Horace Liveright [1946], 1946 First Printing of this reissue in variant red cloth, Liveright cancel title page and Gaudier-Brzeska portrait frontispiece, no markings, no dust jacket, slight shelf wear only, boards sharp binding tight, slight softening to spine ends, spine faded but titles legible, offsetting to endpapers, else bright tight copy of this edition printed… Read more about this item

London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 59, [1]. Original second-state dark grey boards, spine and front board lettered in gilt. A few minor spots. Slightly rubbed at joints and spine ends. Pound’s first proper book, printed in an edition of 1,000 copies with half of those, following slow sales, repurposed for a compilation volume several… Read more about this item

New York: New Directions, 1949. Very Good/No dustjacket. New York: New Directions, [1949]. First New Directions Edition, First Impression. (3200 copies printed). Octavo (8.75" x 5.5"); 273p. Frontis plate and one full page interior illustration [Gallup lists three plates, but I'm not seeing evidence here of one removed]. Missing dustjacket. First impression in light blue cloth with gilt… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1981. Reissue. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Fiore, Quentin. Edges of endpapers slightly faded, otherwise an excellent copy. 1981 Full-Leather. 349 pp. Dark blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Quentin Fiore. Includes Personae and A Draft of XXX Cantos.… Read more about this item