Leavis’ critical response to Pound’s How to Read. Not, as titled, “A Primer [for anyone wishing to approach] Ezra Pound”, but more like an attempt to whitewash Pound’s criticisms. Nonetheless, a remarkably unsunned copy.

“I have made these selections to indicate the main elements in the Cantos. To the specialist the task of explaining them. As Jung says: ‘Being essentially the instrument for his work he (the artist) is subordinate to it and we have no reason for expecting him to interpret it for us. He has done the best that is in him by giving it form and he must leave interpretation to others and to the future.’” — Foreword, Ezra Pound, 1966.

First edition, third printing. Faber first published this selection, made by Pound in September 1966, in 1967 and again 1969 and 1974 (this copy). Selection dated incorrectly as September 1965 on both inside cover and page 6, in contradiction with Gallup’s copies. With pink bookseller’s stamp “Shakespeare and Company / Kilometer Zero Paris” and pencil price ‘10F’ to half-title. Covers lightly rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Gallup A89a.

Italian translation of T. S. Eliot’s “Ezra Pound / His Metric and Poetry” (Gallup B17) by Laura Caretti. With the original banner, “The first critical essay by Eliot,” priced L.1200 inside rear fold. Stamp “New York University / Ex Libris / Robert J. Clements” to half-title. A fine copy, little sunned. Not in Gallup.

First German edition, translated by Hedda Soellner. With a foreword by Eva Hesse containing a German translation of Pound’s Cantico del Sole. Illustrated with 4 photos of Pound within. Spine and fore-edge sunned, internally fine. Gallup D34.

First edition, number 452 of 500 copies. Pound’s translations vis-a-vis to Rimbaud’s originals. With illustrations of women by Matisse, Modigliani and Picasso. A fine copy, lightly thumbed on the fore-edge. Gallup B60.

Pound’s third, and his first in London. Second state, in light brown paper boards with the lettering on the spine measuring 15 instead of 20mm. A beautiful copy, the spine very lightly worn with a touch of rubbing through the paper head and tails; lightly foxed around endpapers. Gallup A3a.

First edition, American issue, of Pound’s Guide to Kulchur (carrying the title Culture in America). One of 519 copies issued at $2.50. Original dust-jacket, chipped and missing the spine. Spine a little faded. A few pencil scores in the margin. Gallup A45b.

First (trade) edition, review copy with publisher’s slip and catalogue laid-in. Endpapers a little stained; one spot to fore-edge. Dust-jacket sunned around spine, top-edge, and fore-edge; spotting, price-clipped. A clean copy. Gallup A91a.

Pound’s first American publication, first edition, second impression, containing a selection of poems from Personae (1909), Exultations (1909) and Canzoni (1911). With contemporary ink ownership inscription to ffep: Dorothy Worthington / October 1917. Lacks the dust-jacket. Boards a little scuffed, not so bright, paper over bottom corners split, but a first class survivor. Gallup A6b.

Pound’s translation of Sophocle’s Women of Trachis, translated into German by Eva Hesse. First German edition. Top inch of front cover discoloured. Gallup D35.

Second edition, American wrapper issue. Review copy, with the publisher’s slip laid-in. Issued in April 1960 as NDP 89. A very well preserved copy; front cover lightly creased at the corners; pages lightly browned, being of cheap stock. Detailed in Gallup A35b.

A selection of poems from across Pound’s oeuvre by Thom Gunn, an English poet associated with The Movement (Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, etc.). First edition, in fine condition, and of decent quality (for Faber). Pocket edition. Not in Gallup.

New edition. Selected to the advice of Hugh Kenner and Hayden Carruth. First published as New Directions Paperbook No. 66, one of 9993 copies. Near fine. Gallup A62b.

Exhibition catalogue for the symposium, Make It New: Translation and Metrical Innovations, Aspects of Ezra Pound’s Work, The University of Texas, March 15-17, 1967. One of 3000 copies, listing an array of historical, rare and unique items, from first editions to typescripts, letters, photos and drawings; a total of 154 items. Containing 15 plates illustrating exhibition items and further illustrations. Publisher’s compliments slip laid-in. Light spotting to covers and fore-edge. Gallup B87.

Second number of Jonathan Greene’s gnomon, containing Selections from Richard of St. Victor by Ezra Pound, with pen annotation correcting Pound’s copyright 19667. Further contributions from Jorge Luis Borges (translated by L. A. Murillo), Guy Davenport and Charles Stein. A lovely, clean copy, faded very slightly at the spine, creased very slightly at the rear & bottom corner. Not in Gallup.

First separate edition, American issue. English sheets, printed in Great Britain at the Kynoch Press, with a reprinted title leaf. Number of copies unknown. Fenollosa’s essay on the verbal nature of life and language, and the ideogram as a poetic medium, edited and executed by Ezra Pound for Fenollosa’s widow, Sydney McCall. This copy is somewhat dust-soiled and quite heavily foxed inside; labels remain bright and the boards a pleasant green; dust-jacket quite foxed with a little loss; nonetheless a good and sound example. Gallup B36.

Programme for 3 plays in the repertoire of the Theater of The Open Eye, NYC, the first being Ezra Pound’s translation of Sophocles’ The Women of Trachis, the others being Primordial Voices by Teiji Ito and Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. Date unknown, but the latest that appears in the programme is 1975. Six dates are given for performances of The Women of Trachis. Laid in are 2 sheets titled Preview Performances / Sophocles’ The Women of Trachis / trans. Ezra Pound which thank the funders of the programme, advertise for choral voice Vanya Franck, and then contain 6 verses over 3 pages of Songs of the Koros (from Pound) in monotype. Covers quite sunned and fore-edge a little crumpled, as might be expected from a programme picked up ‘on the night’. Not in Gallup?

Fourth American collected edition, thirteenth printing. The first printing to contain the Italian Cantos, LXXII-LXXIII. Canto 72 is presented in a “recently found English translation”, while 73 remains in the Italian. A fine copy, spine lightly faded. Too late for Gallup.

On multiplicity, engagement, and other things. Contains How to Write (1930). The first half of the book given to Ardizzone, complicated & not to be conquered pre Pound. Advanced primary material. First edition, review copy. Light discolouration to top edge. Not in Gallup.

First edition, preceding the English issue by a year. Two successful tape repairs inside the jacket. Lectores españoles puede buscar una edición en castellano. Gallup B90.

Life through shared eyes, intimate and well written. First edition, near fine condition.

Kenner’s first book on Pound and his second publication, following Paradox in Chesterton. With the ink ownership inscription of Samuel J. Howard and Parkers of Oxford’s book-label to fpd. Strips of browning to ffep and rfep. Small tears to dust-jacket, with some loss top of front and foot of spine. Otherwise as desired. Gallup B52.

Uncorrected Advance Reading Copy of the first volume of Moody’s successful, three part series, Ezra Pound: Poet / A Portrait of the Man & His Work. Some light wear and staining to the wraps.

A later publication of the 1954 edition; 305 Confucian poems translated into English by EP. Wraps a little spotted, spine darkened; small dark smudge to fore-edge. Detailed in Gallup under A69b but not indexed.

A popular selected edition of Pound’s poems, with dust-jacket designed by Alvin Lustig for New Directions. 3 pencils inscriptions translating the Greek in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, and further to Canto I. One small tape repair inside the dust-jacket’s front cover; jacket lightly worn, spine slightly faded. With a typewritten fragment pasted to fpd indexing the included Cantos to their page number. Gallup A62.

A portrait of Pound by this Questionable Individual. First edition. Stain to the dust-jacket under the D of POUND passing through to the cloth; trouble to the rear of the dust-jacket, and some rubbing on the jacket’s fore-edge. Gallup B72.

As per Gallup: A selection, made and translated by Eva Hesse, of brief passages from the Cantos and Personae (1926). Fine; pencil inscription to rear cover. Gallup D35e.

A great thing to see this pocket book in collectible condition. Light yellowing but perfectly square. Enough (and not too many) essays to begin a Poundian education. Not in Gallup.

“The basic selection for this book was made by Ezra Pound in September, 1966, and it was first published in London by Faber & Faber in 1967. In this American edition, which was composed in Monotype Bembo, in the style of the Mardersteig first printings of The Pisan Cantos, Section Rock-Drill and Thrones, the more compressed setting making a few extra pages available…” — Publisher’s Note, James Laughlin, 1970.

As the Faber edition, extended with the rest of Canto LII, the first 107 lines of Canto LXXXIII, and fragments CXV and CXVI which had only been published after the Faber edition (1969). 1 cm tear to fore-edge of page 3 [Canto I]; gentle yellowing to wraps. Gallup A89b.

First published in hardback form by Faber and Faber in 1955, this pretty paperback edition saw an added Preface to the Paperback Edition by Espey discussing the critical reception to the Faber edition by Thomas Connolly and Pound himself, including a change made by Pound in 1957 seeming to respond to Espey’s reading. First paperback edition, review copy with the publisher’s slip laid-in. Slight wear to wraps. Not in Gallup.

In 1958 at Brunnenburg, Pound rediscovered a set of old notebooks containing field-writings from his tours in Southern France in 1912. The discovery prompted Walking Tour 1912, a compilation by Marcella Spann at Pound’s request. The incomplete manuscript settled in the Beinecke in the late ’70s, until Donald Gallup unearthed it, attempted to re-transcribe the material, but too floundered. This work is Sieburth’s unjumbling and transcribing of the notebooks from 1912, offering our return to the young Pound’s reliving the roads of old Provence. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s letter laid-in, in fine condition, save a little yellowing to the top and bottom edges of the jacket.

First edition, third issue. One of an unknown number of first edition sheets bound for the American market. This copy is ex-libris both Emma Garrett Boyd with her bookplate to fpd, and Emory University Library, with their stamps to the half-title and p.51. The spine has been rebacked with tape, which reaches round to the fpd and rpd. Bottom inch lost off title page. One further loss of the top corner of p.21. A pencil inscription translating the title Dieu! Qu’il la fait on p.35. Boards a little rubbed and corners bumped, but, despite all that, a lovely clean copy inside, with attractive large print, and no foxing. Gallup A8c.

Translations or translucencies; Yip’s deep dive into Pound’s highly influential 1915 volume, Cathay, and, given the influence Fenellosa had on Pound, a study of Pound’s lifelong poetic technique. First edition in a price clipped dust-jacket; discolouration to top and fore edges; small loss at back. Not in Gallup.

A slightly daft, but vibrant and entertaining imagined account of Pound’s hearing to establish his mental health before going to trial for treason. The play sees the cross examination of Doctors Muncie & Overholser, as well as private scenes of E.P., Dorothy Pound, Sheri Martinelli, William Carlos Williams and others at St. Elizabeths. Pound is portrayed peculiarly, largely as a mind which is not fully present in any room. Not a factual account. Fine.

The sixth volume in New Direction’s series The Correspondence of Ezra Pound. Mostly Pound’s letters to Anderson, concerning the promotion of Joyce, Hemingway and Breton. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s letter laid in. A fine copy; dust-jacket very lightly discoloured in places. Too late for Gallup.

A popular account of the young poet’s first five years in London. A fine copy; dust-jacket a little edge worn and rubbed on the back cover. Gallup B79.

9 letters from Henderson to Pound, 69 letters from Pound to Henderson, associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, including transcribed annotations of Henderson’s poems by Pound. Fine. Too late for Gallup.

A carefully edited and annotated collected edition of Pound’s writings on and translations of Guido Cavalcanti. First edition, review copy. Dust-jacket sunned to top edge, otherwise fine. Too late for Gallup.

Pound’s first book of prose, essays on Arnaut Daniel, Dante, Cavalcanti, Lope de Vega, etc. New edition, American issue, one of 500 copies. A fine copy with a little shelf wear in a beautiful dust-jacket. Gallup A5e.

Pound’s letters to John Quinn, American lawyer and patron of the arts who defended the editors of The Little Review when charged with publishing obscene content, being Joyce’s Ulysses. Illustrated and annotated. A fine first edition. Too late for Gallup.

One of the most important sets of Pound’s letters. Olivia Rossetti Agresti was a British-born Italian loyal citizen, a sympathiser of Fascist ideals, and a critic of Mussolini’s politics. Their correspondence began in 1937 and continued throughout Pound’s incarceration at St. Elizabeths. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s slip laid-in. Dust-jacket very slightly discoloured to top edge with a little wear there. Too late for Gallup.

Selected letters between these lifelong friends who first met while at the University of Pennsylvania together. From 1907 to 1963. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s slip laid-in. Fine condition; jacket a little tanned at extremities. Too late for Gallup.

“Ezra Pound Issue” of the Yale Poetry Review, containing Pisan Canto LXXXIII prior to the publication of The Pisan Cantos. Also contains Pound’s Cantos: Means to an End by Harold H. Watts and Ezra Pound’s Homage to Propertius by Lawrence Richardson. Wraps a little soiled, darkening to top edge and spine; corners leafed inside. Errata slip laid-in. Gallup C1709.

Letters from 1914, commencing with the editing of Blast, till Wyndham Lewis’s death in 1957. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s letter laid-in. Fine condition save some light streaking to the jacket. Too late for Gallup.

“This anthology is Ezra Pound’s own choice of the poetry of various ages and cultures—ranging from his translations of the Confucian Odes up to E. E. Cummings—which he considers the finest of its type….”

First edition, wrapper issue; NDP 126. Published at the same time as the hardback edition. Wrappers and spine lightly worn; my own ineluctable pencil annotations. Gallup B78b.

Replete with contributions from first and second generation Poundians. Wraps discoloured; light blue watercolour stain to front cover; top edge lightly sunned. Various entries recorded in Gallup.

“New edition,” American issue; identitcal to the English issue and first editions. Sheets printed by Faber and Faber. A great reader’s copy of this highly important and legibile Poundian text. With ink ownership inscription to ffep cancelled in pencil; no further inscriptions; a little marked on the fore edge. Dust-jacket designed by Alvin Lustig for New Directions; a little edge-worn with multiple tape repairs internally; a little rubbed; spine faded. A very good copy. Detailed under Gallup A35b.

First edition, first printing, without an edition statement to the rear fold. A fine copy with a couple of light marks. Dust-jacket is somewhat rubbed and discoloured, with an ink cancellation of the $1.50 price-tag on the rear cover. Pound and Stock’s very entertaining translations of love poems from the Italian renderings of the hieroglyphic originals by Egyptologist Boris de Rachewiltz, Pound’s son-in-law. Gallup A80.

First edition, second state with the brown paper covered boards. One of 1000 sets of sheets which were used for both the first state, the second state, and for Canzoni & Ripostes (1913) (Gallup A7b). Pound’s third collection of poetry published in London. A copy somewhat wanting in condition: spine repaired, being partly rebacked and laid down; evidence of 3 old pieces of tape which once held the spine to the boards remains; top and tail of spine lost; pressure crease to front and rear boards; boards discoloured around the edges; corners bumped. Some very minimal pencil scores to the contents page, otherwise internally crisp and clean. With adverts for Personae and Exultations to the rear. Gallup A7a.

Though titled on the cover Ernest Fenollosa. The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, this book in fact contains Pound’s translations of the Chung Yung (The Unwobbling Pivot) and the Ta S’Eu (The Great Digest), both reduced here, as well as Fenollosa’s essay. This copy has the stamp of John Kasper, Publisher, usually in blue but here in black, to the title back and rear cover (John Kasper was a segregationist acquaintance of Pound’s during his time at St. Elizabeths). Part of the Square Dollar Series. A few light marks to the covers, spine sunned, but a fine copy. Detailed under Gallup B36a.

First edition, second impression. The second impression of this title saw paper wrappers printed in blue instead of boards. Spine of jacket darkened, tiny loss to head of spine. Newspaper article discussing Pound’s selection for the New Classics Series (not this book but a New Directions series), the Bollingen Prize and The Pisan Cantos; article has offset lightly onto the half-title. Overall a very nice copy. Gallup A48.

Agenda, Vol. IV, No. 2 (October-November 1965). Contains part of Canto 115 by Ezra Pound. With further contributions from Robert Creeley, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Basil Bunting, William Cookson, Hugh Kenner, Charles Tomlinson and more. Fine. Partly indexed in Gallup C1903 and C1904.

A rare copy of Alfred Kreymborg’s Others, containing The Tea Shop, Phylidula, The Patterns, Shop Girl, Another Man’s Wife and Coda by Ezra Pound, all in first appearance. With further contributions from Richard Aldington. Light fading to edge of wraps; wraps split down spine and detached from text-block, otherwise fine. Gallup C210.

A popular dive into the young poet’s first five years in London. First American edition. A fine copy; dust-jacket browned on spine and top edge, a little rubbed to back cover. Detailed under Gallup B79 but not indexed.

An ephemeral production reproducing a letter from EP to Louis Untermeyer in which Pound details his biography. Reprinted from the Paris Review for Summer/Fall 1962 (Gallup C1888), and also included in EP to LU as Letter V (Gallup A81). Number 98 of 200 copies for sale. Fine. Gallup A103.

Stock’s study of The Cantos, adhering more strictly to the poem’s text (rather than its peritext) than other contemporary studies. First edition, uninscribed; a little dust-soiling to the cloth. In a beautiful dust-jacket, price-clipped; a little creased on the fore edge and marked to the rear. Not in Gallup, being a secondary text.

“Which brings us to this book, the longest, fullest, most devoted picture of Ezra Pound in his great days that we are likely to have. The Pound I first met in 1948 was a prisoner who’d been through something resembling shell-shock. But the Pound James Laughlin had known a dozen years earlier—! Well, read about him.” — Introduction, Hugh Kenner.

First English edition. Tales of EP by James Laughlin, founder of the New Directions publishing house which kept Pound on the shelves for years.

A selection of Japanese Noh plays found among the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, chosen and finished by Ezra Pound at the request of W. B. Yeats for his sisters’ Cuala Press. With the bookplate of Edith Lucie Weart (author of The Story of Your Blood and other books) to fpd; “Bound by Galwey & Co., Eustace St., Dublin” sticker to fpd; “déanta in éirinn [Made in Ireland] / no. 0490” sticker with Gaelic designs to rfep. Printed in red and black. Blanks uncut. No. 340 of 350 copies. Fine; a special copy. Gallup A12.

Kenner’s great monogram on Pound and the modernist age. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s slip laid in. A very good copy; boards very lightly dust-soiled; jacket tanned on top and fore edge and down spine. Gallup B108.

Previously unpublished letters between Pound and the editors of The Dial, Scofield Thayer and Sibley Watson, showing Pound to be responsibly for practically all the foreign contributions published. Includes holographs of the original letters. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s letter laid in. Fine. Too late for Gallup.

Second American collected edition of The Cantos, first printing, one of 3000 copies. Dust-jacket somewhat rubbed, spine wrinkled, otherwise a nice copy with no inscriptions. Gallup A61e.

“… the incarcerated live largely on their post bag.” — Pound to Theobold

Letters (1957-1958) between Pound and John Theobald, an English teacher at a California university, concerning the nature of education, the goal of literature, and scrutiny. With a foreword by Theobald. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s letter laid in; some offsetting of letter onto front flap. Fine, spine sunned and a little marked. Too late for Gallup.

Essay in Italian by Ardizzone, followed by Scritti inediti o rari, a selection of Pound’s scientific writings. A precursor to Ardizzone’s Machine Art. An attractive textbook-like paperback from Vanni Scheiwiller, printed in large type with numerous reproductions of Pound’s notes. Front cover of outer wrap a little marked and wrinkled, otherwise very nice. Too late for Gallup.

The first appearance of Pound’s translation of the Odes. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s notice laid in. A fine copy in a troubled dust-jacket which presents fairly well but has seen a number of tape repairs to the back. Gallup A69a.

Second edition, following American and English issues in 1922 and 1926 respectively. Gourmont’s surname misspelt on dust-jacket. Ownership stamp of Donald Dickson cancelled out to ffep; evidence of dog-ears throughout. Boards a little marked; dust-jacket edge-worn. Missed by Gallup.

A study and biography of Pound, sourced from a wealth of material. Heavy offsetting to first 3 pages on account of a 4 page newspaper article Talk With James Laughlin: New and Old Directions by Linda Kuehl, featuring a photo of Pound and Laughlin in Rapallo in 1960, laid in. Dust-jacket a little rubbed and discoloured, spine wrinkled, otherwise desirable. Not in Gallup.

Louis Zukofsky’s copy of this draft, with his ownership inscription dated 1935 to ffep. Boards a little rubbed; spine split at reverse; but very clean throughout with, unfortunately, no further inscriptions. Gallup A37c.

One of the earliest copies of this publication with the misspelling ‘eary’ for ‘early’ on the spine of the dust-jacket. Contains poems from publications, periodicals and other miscellanies from 1908 to 1912, and a wonderful reference option. A fine copy, with a very light scratch to the rear cover. Gallup A98.

A selection of 9 letters from Pound to Louis Untermeyer, with reproductions of the originals. In the original plain acetate dust-jacket with a small stain and tear to the rear. Boards very lightly faded on top edge. Housed in a custom mustard cloth and blue leather clamshell box with a little wear and fading to the spine. Gallup A81.

Rejected by 40 publishers. More legible than the later Guide to Kulchur by a far cry, Pound compares the paideumas of Jefferson’s America and Mussolini’s Italy to reveal the same sensibilities in both men. First edition, trade issue (after 30 signed copies). Occasional welcomed pencil inscription, such as the identification of “Ole. H” on p.7 as “[Henry] Mencken.” Sections meeting at p.96, 97 opened to spine. Bookseller label of The Grolier Bookshop / Cambridge to ffep. Some marks to cloth with the top few cms darker; shelf-wear. Dust-jacket with a light, possibly dust-soiled patina; spine, fore edge and top edge darkened; wear to extremities, no repairs and none necessary; faint pencil notes to rear flap. A very good copy of a very important book. Gallup A41b.

First American edition, appearing one year after the first edition (Stanley Nott, 1935) extended to include a letter from EP to the editor of the Criterion, Autumn 1934. A fine, unread copy in the original, attractive dust-jacket which has discoloured only a little to the top inch of the front cover with one short, closed tear. Gallup A41c.

Earle Davis, head of the English Department at Kansas State University, mines the Poundian corpus, centring on The Cantos, in an attempt to explicate Pound’s economic theories and influences, tracing the unusual path of this great poet. Not in Gallup.

A unique presentation of Pound’s translation of the Ta Hsio and Chung Yung, containing historic editions of the texts on tablets, provided for New Directions by William Hawley and commented on by Achilles Fang. A fine copy, save a tiny bit of bumping to the spine, in a bright dust-jacket with a little edge-wear. Gallup B53a.

First American (offset) edition, with the misprint on p.85 l.9, “no war” for “One war,” and the publisher’s erratum slip laid in revealing this copy as second issue. Together with the publisher’s compliments slip laid in, signed by Bonnie Armstrong. Light stain to fore edge; pastedowns and endpapers mottled; cloth a very little dusty. Dust-jacket lightly rubbed with some colourful aging; spine sunned. Perfectly straight. Gallup A77b.

A lovely posthumous overview of Ezra Pound’s life, profusely illustrated. An enjoyable and easy book which makes a great gift. A fine copy; dust-jacket discoloured at top edge and spine with a small repair top of spine. Not in Gallup.

New (offset) edition, first published 1949, unknown impression and not in Gallup. This copy has a grey dust-jacket, introduced in the second impression (1956). Advert to the rear flap reads The Letters of Wyndham Lewis edited by W. K. Rose instead of Section: Rock-Drill as identified by Gallup. Edition page reads “Copyright 1926 by Ezra Pound,” thus not the fourth printing which reads “Copyright… / Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 50-13308 / Fourth Printing,” and comes with the gilt device of EP by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska to the front cover. Also without Index of Titles and First Lines to pp.275-81 found in later printings. Thus possibly an elusive third. Cloth speckled by dust; jacket torn at hinges, faded and price-clipped. Ephemera from previous owner laid in. See Gallup A27b.

First separate edition, American wrapper issue. Fenollosa’s essay on the verbal nature of life and language, and the ideogram as a poetic medium, edited and executed by Ezra Pound for Fenollosa’s widow, Sydney McCall. A fine copy with a small crease to the bottom right of the front cover and a few marks to the back. Detailed under Gallup B36b but not indexed.

“An epic is a poem containing history. / No one can understand history without understanding economics. …

Pound’s developed thoughts on the economic theories of the Major C. H. Douglas, which began around 1920, a follow up to the ABC of Economics and Être Citoyen…, and an important prerequisite for Pound’s radio speeches and Cantos. Near fine. Gallup A40a.

No. 5 in the series Fascicoli [Booklets] del Verri from Vanni Scheiwiller’s Pesce d’Oro. A translation into Italian of Pound’s Canto 99 by his daughter. One of 1000 copies, this one number 386. Fine. Gallup D79.

First edition, American issue. One of 300 scarce copies of first edition sheets bound and issued by New Directions. Lacks dust-jacket. Near fine; two small tears to fore-edge of title page, fading to spine and edges, light shelf-wear. Gallup A34b.

Terrell’s gloss of Cantos 1-117, for a long time indispensible for the reader and referenced by most scholarship of the age. Successor to Edwards & Vasse’s Annotated Index, and predecessor to Roxana Preda’s The Cantos Project (in progress). Both first edition volumes in original dust-jackets; spines sunned, jacket of Vol. 1 sunned further to front cover. With the publisher’s catalogue of Ezra Pound books laid in. Not in Gallup.

A selection of Pound’s more elusive works which had appeared either in periodicals or in limited runs, such as Imaginary Letters, Twelve Dialogues of Fontanelle, Frivolities, Madox Ford at Rapallo etc. A fine copy; dust-jacket a little rubbed with some shelf wear; jacket price clipped and a new price 5.75 stamped on. First edition. Gallup A74a.

“re USURY / I was out of focus, taking a symptom for a cause. / The cause is AVARICE.”
— Foreword (Venice, 4th July, 1972), Ezra Pound

A selection of Pound’s prose aimed “to show the unity of Ezra Pound’s vision and the integrity of his concerns.” First edition, fine in a near fine dust-jacket with a little fading to spine and marks to back cover. Gallup A93a.

A biography of Pound particularly strong on the years and associates at St. Lizs. Near fine. Too late for Gallup.

Paige’s attempt to document Pound as the seminal modernist whose exchanged letters with the most influential and successful artists of his day, often aiding in their success. First edition, a fine copy in a bright dust-jacket with a few marks; publisher’s card laid in. Gallup A64a.

First edition, first state of Pound’s most famous sequence composed after being brought in from the cage and given a tent and typewriter. The earliest copies, as this, have the publisher’s address 500 Fifth Avenue on the dust-jacket, which changed to 333 Sixth Ave in March 1949. A fine copy throughout in a typically fragile dust-jacket; entirely present, apart from the chips, split between front cover and front flap, and front cover and spine; a further split running down a fifth of the spine. A very good copy which is preserved in protective mylar. Gallup A60a.

“New edition,” American issue; identitcal to the English issue and first editions. Sheets printed by Faber and Faber. A great reader’s copy of this highly important and legibile Poundian text. Dust-jacket designed by Alvin Lustig for New Directions. Book and jacket both very near fine; some fading to the top of front cover and spine; some very light marks to the cloth. Detailed under Gallup A35b.

“The Analects… are the oddments which Kung’s circle found indispensable, and for 2,500 years the most intelligent men of China have tried to add to them or to subtract… Aristotle OR Plato, as if there were no other roads to serenity.”
 — Procedure, p.7

First English edition, reprinted, not in Gallup. Near fine with a little foxing around the end-papers in a like dust-jacket with some edge-wear.

A collection of Pound’s art reviews in The New Age, as well as further articles, correspondence, and manuscripts published and unpublished. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s letter laid in. A fine copy; jacket sunned to spine. Gallup A105.

Part of the Ezra Pound Scholarship Series edited by C. F. Terrell. A great explication for some of the more difficult Cantos. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s slip laid in. Fine with some fading to wraps and spine.

Second English collected edition, containing cantos up to and including The Pisan Cantos, excluding the Italian Cantos. Second impression (after 1954 first), without the errata slip. Ink ownership inscription of Samuel J. Howard and bookseller’s label to fpd. A fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket. Gallup A61c.

Third American collected edition, fifth printing, advertised as “Revised,” i.e. same as the third (and fourth) printings, corrected and extended to include Canto CXX. Does not contain the Italian Cantos. A fine copy, in a price clipped jacket subtly faded. Gallup A61f.

Third American collected edition, third printing, the first to be advertised as “Revised,” corrected and extended to include Canto CXX. Does not contain the Italian Cantos. Fine. Gallup A61f.

“This anthology is Ezra Pound’s own choice of the poetry of various ages and cultures—ranging from his translations of the Confucian Odes up to E. E. Cummings—which he considers the finest of its type….”

First edition, hardbound issue. One of 2300 copies. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single score on the front cover and a few minor, closed tears. Gallup B78a.

Letters and diary entries between EP and DS from their meeting to their marriage. “They also shed a poignant light on The Pisan Cantos of 1945, where amid the ruins of his life Pound recalled again and again the events and people described in these letters, as if the memory of 1909-1914 was the only stable point left in a disintegrating personal universe.” First edition, review copy with the publisher’s letter laid-in. Fine; jacket a little sunned. Too late for Gallup.

First edition, first issue, one of 1000 copies. A fine copy, partly uncut, in a near fine dust-jacket which is a little rubbed and yellowed, price clipped, with one small tape repair. Testimonies by Hemingway, Joyce, Williams, Tate, Walpole, Ford and Eliot to jacket, flaps and back. Gallup A37a.

One of 419 copies (of a total of 750) issued by New Directions from the original Farrar & Rinehart sheets, using too the F&R dust-jacket. With bookseller’s label of The Grolier Bookshop, Cambridge to ffep, and one small pencil inscription there dating the purchase to 1945. A fine copy, one small hole on the fore-edge of the dust-jacket, spine browned. Gallup A43c.

A collection of Pound’s writings, some condensed, some corrected, some appended with new footnotes by EP, many coming from periodical appearances and previously uncollected. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s slip laid in. Near fine in a near fine jacket; ink ownership inscription to ffep cancelled in pencil; some browning to ffep; pencil marginalia in Introduction; top edge of cloth yellowing; jacket price-clipped with a little shelf-wear. Gallup A78.

A collection of letters and essays documenting Pound’s involvement in art, literature, and culture in Japan, extending from 1911 to 1968. First edition, review copy. Fine. Too late for Gallup.

Kenner’s first book on Pound. First edition, American issue. A very clean copy, a little shelf wear head and tail of spine, spine faded. Mentioned under the English edition, Gallup B52.

First published in 1954 by Faber, this is a later, new (offset) edition first published in 1960 or 1961, second printing 1963. The kind of book to be published by Faber, focusing on Pound’s literary merits. A useful and detailed Index at back. Spine creased and light wear to wraps, otherwise very good. First printing (not this second) mentioned under Gallup A67a.

“A collection of stale creampuffs.”
 — Foreword (San Ambrogio, 19 Ag. ’64), Ezra Pound.

First edition, one of the very first copies issued with the printed label set into the back cover (later copies have a plain back cover). An important republication of Pound’s earliest poems, including A Lume Spento, A Quinzaine for This Yule, and the San Trovaso Notebook. A fine copy with the very occasional pencil annotation. Gallup A83a.

First American (offset) edition, superior, in my opinion, to the Faber first in both design and quality. A fine book in an ok jacket; spine browned; edge-wear with a number of tape reinforcements to back. Light pencil marginalia to Date Line and French Poets including “Pound is childish,” p.172 and “Pound is an ass,” p.194. Ink ownership inscription of W. Y. Tindall, author of James Joyce: His Way of Interpreting The Modern World, to ffep. Gallup A36b.

A collection of Pound’s music reviews, including his fortnightly column written for The New Age under the pseudonym William Atheling; Pound paid his rent on such work while living in London, and many of the reviews contained within are written regarding concerts at the Aeolian, now Wigmore Hall. With further articles from periodicals, concert programmes, and essays such as that on Absolute Rhythm and Great Bass. Identical to the New Directions issue except for the publisher’s name. A little sunning to the back cover and spine, otherwise fine. Gallup A99b.

A new selection by Sieburth, indicative of progress in Poundian scholarship in the 21st century. A larger than usual NDP, in nearly textbook like format. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s letter laid in. Fine. Much too late for Gallup.

A selection of Pound’s more elusive works which had appeared either in periodicals or in limited runs, such as Imaginary Letters, Twelve Dialogues of Fontanelle, Frivolities, Madox Ford at Rapallo etc. First edition, wrapper issue. Fine save marks to back cover. Mentioned under Gallup A74a.

First edition, fifth printing of this collected edition that kept Pound’s poetry available for many years. The first two impressions were published by Boni and Liveright, the third and fourth by Horace Liveright, and the fifth and sixth by the Liveright Publishing Corporation, all from the same plates, each with their own idiosyncracies. Includes a selection of poems from before 1908 up to Homage to Sextus Propertius and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. Near fine; just a touch of shelf-wear. Gallup A27a.

A very comprehensive collection of Pound’s verse, starting with Hilda’s Book and ending with a number of uncollected poems. Printed on India-like paper. Fine.

First American edition, first printing, following the 1955 Pesce d’Oro Italian release. Review copy, with the publisher’s card laid in. Pencil ownership inscription of “Ted Berrigan 1962” to ffep; Berrigan (1934-1983) was an American poet. Fine in a very good dust-jacket, with some rubbing, yellowing, one stain, edge-wear. Gallup A70b.

This copy is accompanied by an unusual booklet, Six Poems, published by New Directions in 1957.

“This booklet distributed to the friends of New Directions contains one poem from six books of poetry published by New Directions in 1956.”

Contents: “On Love” and “Statement” from Poems from the Greek Anthology by Dudley Fitts. “Written on the Wall at Chang’s Hermitage” from One Hundred Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth. “Meditation” from In the Rose of Time by Robert Fitzgerald. “The American Century” from In Defense of the Earth by Kenneth Rexroth. “My Little One” from In the Winter of Cities by Tennessee Williams. From Canto 90 of Section: Rock-Drill by Ezra Pound.

4to, 8pp.; 15.9 x 8.9 cm. Stapled. Reader’s crease in bottom corner. Small stain to last page. Bottom staple imperfect. Does not appear to be in Gallup or mentioned elsewhere online, save a ghost listing on Amazon.

Recommended me by mf as surpassing E. Fuller Torrey’s The Roots of Treason, thus kept. First American edition; a Canadian edition was simultaneously published by Macmillan. Not in Gallup, being secondary.

New edition, American issue, paperbound. Pound’s first book of prose, on Dante, Cavalcanti, Daniel, de Vega, Villon, etc. of which everyone should already have a copy. A near fine, uninscribed copy; light wear and yellowing to wraps and two crease marks down spine. Gallup A5f.

One of 1000 copies, a reissue of Pound’s translation of the first of the Four Shu, in variant binding with yellow wrappers (usually brown) in a green dust-jacket (usually yellow). Jacket browned at edges, otherwise fine. Variant not mentioned, but otherwise detailed under Gallup A28b.

One of 1000 copies, a reissue of Pound’s translation of the first of the Four Shu, whose first chapter (Ta Hio, the Great Learning) is ascribed to Confucius, and the remainder to one of his disciples. Wraps detached from text-block; midway split along spine of dust-jacket, otherwise in very nice condition and kept safe in mylar. Detailed under Gallup A28b.

A rare publication celebrating Pound’s 100th birthday. An unusual and appealing collection of personal articles, ranging from a letter written by Pound’s mother, Isabel Pound, five months before his birth, to Allen Ginsberg’s Encounters with Ezra Pound. A fine copy. Too late for Gallup.

Though unpublished and unperformed for 40 years, this translation of Sophocle’s Elektra predates Pound’s Women of Trachis, being composed in 1949 while EP was in St Elizabeths hoping for a Greek “revival.” Edited here to present annotations shared between Pound and Fleming running along the footnotes. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s slip laid in. A fine copy; spine of dust-jacket lightly sunned; slight backward lean. Not in Gallup.

First American edition, second impression after sixty copies printed for private circulation. Contains Lustra, Cathay, and Poems Published Before 1911, identical to the first sixty save for the omission of one poem, “The Temperaments,” and without the frontispiece. However, this copy is bound in the same tan paper boards with a horizontal grain as the first impression, while the usual second impression is bound in mustard paper boards with a pebbledash texture; a state not recorded in Gallup, who lists a few variants. A poor copy, missing the spine, with boards detached from the text-block and text-block split in two with a few loose leaves, all present. Staining to the front edge of the boards, some water drops to pastedowns. Gallup A11d.

A dialogue, by MacLeish, between “mr. Bollingen” and “mr. Saturday,” representing the Bollingen Prize, which was awarded to the Pisan Cantos, and the Saturday Review of Literature, which published a number of criticisms against the award. A crisp copy inside; boards discolouring a bit along the edges; dust-jacket a little grubbied with wear to the top edge and one tear to the bottom of the front cover. Sole edition. Not in Gallup.

“A polite (by definition) essay to refust (it is impolite to refute) tentatively; to confirm; or to leave suspended the statement of an eminent confrère: ‘Not so much came out of those hopeful, in Paris, years.’” — Retrospect: Interlude, p.129

A selection of critical essays complimenting the recently published Make It New. First edition in original cloth, a very fresh copy; fine save some pressure creasing to the boards. Gallup A42a.

A later, hardback edition of Love Poems of Ancient Egypt, illustrated throughout by Tom di Grazie, with further decorative endpapers. A near fine copy; cloth lightly speckled; light wear to dust-jacket, price clipped. Mentioned under Gallup A80 but not indexed.

A Poundian’s choice of this translation, elsewhere known as Shakespeare’s Ovid, with a quote from Pound to the front cover and an introduction exploring the text’s relationship to many poets, commencing with EP. First edition, first printing. A well designed text-block, with large type yet minimal margins, filling all the page with very few circumstantial line breaks. A good copy, wraps a little discoloured and worn, spine showing creasing, covers gently lifting.

An anniversary reprint in miniature format to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Pound’s first book. Rather mixed contents, including Italian translations of Pound’s poems, facsimiles of A Lume Spento (A. Antonini, 1908) and photographs of Venice. This edition contained 2 previously unpublished poems, “Statement of Being” and “For Italico Brass,” both written in 1907 and presented here with reproductions of the original manuscripts. Small stain to rear of dust-jacket; slightly bumped at edges; spine faded. Gallup B64.

A collection of Pound’s music reviews, including his fortnightly column written for The New Age under the pseudonym William Atheling; Pound paid his rent on such work while living in London, and many of the reviews contained within are written regarding concerts at the Aeolian, now Wigmore Hall. With further articles from periodicals, concert programmes, and essays such as that on Absolute Rhythm and Great Bass. A little sunning to the back cover; price clipped; otherwise fine. Gallup A99a.

A special issue of The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. 126, No. 5) given over to EP, containing his Canto C and a number of critical essays about Pound. With a number of full page illustrations printed in monochrome on variously coloured paper. Light discolouration to and edge-wear to wraps. Gallup C1865.

First appearance of Pound’s complete translation of the Confucian Analects, first part, Books I-X. Containing further Poundian contributions, including two groups of Letters of Ezra Pound edited by D. D. Paige, preceding publication in book form, and The Rose in the Steel Dust by Hugh Kenner. Attractive copy with a some browning and light stains to wraps. Gallup C1720.

First appearance of Pound’s complete translation of the Confucian Analects, second part, Books XI-XX. Some discolouration to wraps, spine browned; some light staining. Internally fine. Gallup C1725.

Letters, FBI documents, unseen photographs, an insight into both Ez and Dorothy’s lives at the time, revealing the conditions of the DTC and the composition of The Pisan Cantos. First edition, review copy. Fine. Too late for Gallup.

Contains poems from publications, periodicals and other miscellanies from 1908 to 1912; a wonderful reference option with very clean presentation and variorum at back. First edition, english issue. Fine in a fine, price-clipped dust-jacket; bookseller’s label “Galignani / Rue de Rivoli / Paris” to fpd. Gallup A98b.

First edition, American issue. A selection of Pound’s literary essays edited and introduced by T. S. Eliot. Occasional underlining in ink; ownership inscription of Jon Gold / September 4 1965 to ffep. Dust-jacket edge-worn with two unnoticable tape reinforcements on reverse; spine faded. Gallup A67b.

“A few weeks before he died in 1963 Jean Cocteau composed the drawing used here as a frontispiece as a cover for my setting of Elizabeth Bishop’s Visits to St. Elizabeths. That long and “accumulative” poem—in the style of a macabre This Is the House That Jack Built—describes Miss Bishop’s seeing Ezra Pound at the hospital in 1957. The drawing seems appropriate here as an introduction to my introduction, since I was a friend of Cocteau (he provided me with several such musical covers), who was a friend of Pound (he used Cocteau’s name as the sole timely reference in the opera Testament), who was a friend of Elizabeth Bishop (her first name is misspelled à la française), who is a friend of mine (I, who have never known Pound).” — N.R.

A surprisingly lovely book, with a very poorly centered introduction (reminiscent to me of Notes sur la Technique Poétique), republishing Pound’s Antheil for the first time since 1924 and 1927. Review copy, with the publisher’s slip laid-in. A little soil to the back, bottom corner of the boards; jacket lightly rubbed with one tape repair. Not in Gallup, but should be under A25.

One of 507 scarce copies of the 1970 Liveright Paperbound reissue of this book actually bound in cloth, featuring the statement, “This book is being reissued under a contract which was executed in 1935 and does not necessarily reflect Ezra Pound’s present views.” as a stamp to ffep (it is printed on the back cover of the paperbound edition). Does not have the same copyright statement as the paperbound: “LIVERIGHT PAPERBOUND EDITION 1970” and, apart from the stamp and text-block, appears under the guise of a 1936 publication. A fine copy in original tissue. Mentioned under Gallup A41c.

Philosophic conversations. First English edition, also first hardbound edition after the Square Dollar Series (American) first in 1951. This copy in gold cloth with gold lettering down the spine is a variant binding, probably later, not mentioned in Gallup. With a rare piece of publisher’s advertising (by EP? not mentioned in Gallup?),

 WHY is CONFUCIUS
 banned from the schools in
    RED CHINA?
 Read the ANALECTS
     and FIND OUT!

Measuring 7.7 x 14.8 cm; white paper printed in red. Edge-wear with loss to ephemera. Book fine with a lightly faded spine. Gallup A65b.

First volume in The Correspondence of Ezra Pound series by New Directions. First edition, first printing, fine condition. Gallup A88a.

Cantos I-XVII translated into Swedish by Lars Forssell, first Swedish edition. With portrait frontispiece of Pound in Rapallo, 1959. A very pretty publication. Near fine, uncut; some ephemeral browning to ffep. Gallup D233.

First German edition. Eva Hesse’s translation of Pound’s first 30 Cantos, vis à vis the English. Fine. Gallup D35c.

New edition (American issue), introducing Addenda, 1952, with a long blurb on the back written anonymously by Pound. A fine copy in a lightly rubbed jacket with great colour retention. Gallup A45c.

First edition, first state with fine grain cloth, in a price-clipped jacket in very good condition with a couple of light stains, spine and extremities sunned. The first volume of Pound’s critical essays to be published in England. Gallup A36a.

Massimo Bacigalupo’s study of Pound’s later poetry, The Pisan Cantos, Rock-Drill and Thrones educating those for whom these Cantos divert too greatly from lyric poetry (or the like) to the philosophies of Guido Cavalcanti (dove sta memoria) and Pound’s mental processes — as a friend of mine (PAB) once put it, Pound’s repeat, ever recontextualised, teaches with the same method by which we learn language. A fine copy.

Annotations, explications, and variorum for the poems in Pound’s Personae, 1926, proving a very useful auxilary text. First edition. Near fine in a slightly worn jacket with a faded back cover. Not in Gallup, being secondary.

Anne Conover’s biography of Pound and Rudge’s lives, shared. First edition, fine.

Features a reproduction of a long letter from EP to John Quinn, 1915, (with Pound’s corrections and annotations) after Quinn had offered to fund a literary magazine for Pound. Pound discusses finances, available contributors (multiple references to a discovered young Eliot), existing magazines (such as Poetry, Blast, the Mercure de France); overall a brilliant insight into the scene and Pound’s attitudes to all. Pound floats the idea of taking on an existing mag., which he and Quinn were to do with The Little Review. Also contains a poem, The Rule of Participating In Loving An Only Sister by James Joyce. Spotting inside covers and to first and last pages; light edge-wear to wraps, some creasing to spine. Not in Gallup.

First English edition, a reprinting of “The Treatise of Harmony” from Antheil and The Treatise on Harmony, 1924 and a reworking of “Patria Mia” which was first serialised in 11 parts in the New Age, 1912. A misprinted copy, with the gilt on spine up, against the text-block, leaving “Peter Owen” upside down. A fine copy. Gallup A63b.

L. Craig Anderson’s, to whom these books belonged, copy of Gallup’s Pound bibliography, with numerous post-it note markers and the occasional checks in the margin in the C and E sections. Not a heavily used edition, but nonetheless always nice to see a collector’s Gallup. Latest edition, 1983.

An exploration of Pound’s controversy by Hugh Kenner and Alfred Kazin, featuring contributions by Olga Rudge, Mary de Rachewiltz, James Laughlin, and others, as well as numerous recordings of Pound reciting his poetry. Plays perfectly well both sides. Unsealed. VHS edition available on YouTube.

First edition, American issue of a selection made by Pound. Together with Translations from Cavalcanti (1949), a single leaf of green paper with Sonnets 7 and 16 printed in green on each side (Gallup C1715); laid in and heavily edge-worn and faded where too large for the Translations. Dust-jacket lightly worn with five closed tears; p.406 troubled, otherwise a clean copy. Gallup A66b.

“In several remarkable last interviews before his death in Venice in 1972, the great modernist poet EZRA POUND… broke his decade long silence to share with author ALAN LEVY his observations and reflections on his years in London, Paris and Italy.”

With numerous photographic illustrations throughout. First edition, review copy, with the publisher’s slips laid-in. Light discolouration to edge of covers and spine. Not in Gallup.

A collection of manuscripts for Pound’s broadcasts recorded by the Federal Communications Commission between 1941 and 1943, as well as a selection by Mary de Rachewiltz of the speeches written before the FCC had been established. No jacket, as issued. Gallup A101.

A historic piece of Poundian scholarship, Edwards & Vasse used The Pound Newsletter to serialise efforts annotating Pound’s Cantos from 1954 to 1956, publishing the first edition of the Annotated Index in 1957 and this second, corrected edition in 1959. Referred to in many other pieces of scholarship, but later surpassed by C. F. Terrell’s Companion, then Roxana Preda’s Cantos Project. In the original dust-jacket lightly rubbed and sunned, price-clipped; shelf-wear, endpapers browned. With genealogies of Italian Houses and Chinese Dynasties to back. Not in Gallup. See also my parse into JSON: https://github.com/POUNDIAN/annotated-index.

A blitz of letters from Pound to Borah to take your breath away, as Holmes puts it, in simultaneous reverence and insult. Borah (1865-1940) very occasionally responds, cordially, but never engages EP. Unlike the Cutting letters, which show a great collaboration, these letters reveal more exclusively Pound’s own economic and political ideas measured against the contemporary stage. A fine copy. Too late for Gallup.

 ’Tis the white stag, Fame, we’re a-hunting
 Bid the world’s hounds come to horn!
    — The White Stag, Ezra Pound

Later called the Bitch and Bugle by EP who became irritated by the quarterly’s policies. The Hound & Horn ran from 1927 to 1934 and published the writings of EP, Archibald MacLeish, Katherine Anne Porter, e. e. cummings, Marianne Moore, W. C. Williams, Richard Blackmur, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, and more. This volume contains a selection of letters from those involved in editing and contribution, with whole chapters given over to EP (foreign editor from Rapallo) and T. S. E.  First edition, review copy with the publisher’s slip laid in. Spine faded, but a fine enough copy. Not in Gallup.

First separate edition, first appearing in Quia Pauper Amavi (1919) and then in Poems 1918-1921 (1921) and in Personae (1926). Boards with a little discolouration and few spots; spine darkened with a small break around ‘Homage’, but relatively good. Blackwell’s bookseller’s label to fpd; ink ownership inscription dated 1950 to ffep; one pencil inscription to p.19, but mostly very clean inside. Lacking the dust-jacket. Gallup A38a.

A very pretty, pocket edition of Stock’s Life of Ezra Pound, first published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1970. Light wear to wraps and crease to spine. Detailed under Gallup B99 but not indexed.

Ezra Pound: of Sense and Madness. A literary portrait of EP by his main German scholar and correspondent, Eva Hesse. Appears of great detail; English translation available? Dust-jacket* tanned along top edge, with faint spotting, otherwise all very nice.

Hunders of letters between EP and e.e. c. who met first in Paris in 1921, starting from 1926 when Pound was in Rapallo. A near fine copy with some light scratches to the rear and discolouration along the top-edge of jacket. With stamp “September 30 1997” in blue to ffep. A scarce volume. Too late for Gallup.

One of 200 copies, a private press production of Pound’s medieval poems (troubadours, anonymous Anglo-Saxon, Guido, Petrach, and Walther von der Vogelweide) and rightly fancy; pretty, soft cream paper, fore-edge and bottom-edges rough, printed by hand from handset Romanée and Lutetia types, with frontispiece of a wood-engraving by Dellas Henke after a watercolour by Dorothy Shakespear. Spine faded, one small white blemish to front cover, otherwise fine.

“Dear Mr. Pound,

 As to condoms & Catullus: …”

Letters between EP and Bronson M. Cutting (1888-1935), US. Senator from New Mexico and a progressive Republican who died in a plane crash, between 1930 to 1935. The letters commence with EP’s enquiry to Cutting’s ability to raise concerns over Article 211, which was the basis for the US Postal Authority’s censorship of Wyndham Lewis’s The Cantelman’s Springmate and Joyce’s Ulysses, both in The Little Review. 33 letters (26 from Pound to Cutting) alongside 17 items under the title “Ez Sez” contributed by EP to Cutting’s newspaper, the Sante Fe New Mexican. First edition, review copy with publisher’s letters laid-in. Fine. Too late for Gallup.

(Together with letters to George Holdam Tinkham and William Borah, these volumes make up the largest corpus of correspondence between Pound and highly positioned American politicians established in Pound’s efforts to influence American policy and opinion.)

A volume packed with German translations of Pound’s poetry from Personae (1909) to Selwyn and Sextus, all vis à vis. Touch of edgewear to jacket. Gallup D33.

The second instalment in The Correspondence of Ezra Pound series by New Directions. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s letter laid-in. Spine with some blotchy sunning, otherwise fine. Too late for Gallup.

Letters between Pound and fellow poet and protégé Louis Zukofsky. The fifth volume in The Correspondence of Ezra Pound series by New Directions. First edition, review copy with publisher’s letters laid-in. A fine copy. Too late for Gallup.

Second, enlarged edition of Eva Hesse’s German translations of a selection of EP’s poetry, vis à vis with the originals. This copy in the original glassine with a couple defects; a touch of foxing to endpapers and pastedowns. This edition not in Gallup, but partially accounted for here: Gallup D27.

First English edition of the successful run of Personae (1926) by Boni & Liveright. Contents identical with the addition of an “Index of Titles and First Lines.” Very near fine. Ink ownership inscription of Samuel J. Howard to fpd. Gallup A27c.

A composite of sheets of Personae (1909) and Exultations (1909), with their title pages removed and a new title page bound in. At the end of Personae one find the printer’s device (Chiswick Press) followed by a few blanks, a half-title for Exultations, and onward; at the end of Exultations one finds the same printer’s credit; then followed by adverts for Elkin Mathews’ “Vigo Cabinet” and “Satchel Series.” One of less than 500 copies. Only the tiniest bump at the bottom of front board; an absolutely beautiful copy and a compliment to any collection. Gallup A3b (and A4b).

First edition, American paperbound issue (NDP250). A selection of Pound’s literary essays edited and introduced by T. S. Eliot. Light rubbing to wraps, spot to half-title. Detailed under Gallup A67b.

Pound’s classic text-book “for pleasure as well as for profit” for those who have not been to or have suffered school. “New edition” (though contains no new material), second run, fourth printing. Wraps lightly creased, stained and sunned. With Shakespeare and Company / Kilometer Zero Paris stamp to ffep and a Peanuts comic strip laid-in. Detailed under Gallup A35b.

A neat book contemporary to Pound’s incarceration at St. Elizabeths, detailing Pound’s biography and political economic bent for the wider public, with statements from Aiken, Cummings, Matthiessen, Williams and Zukofsky. Fine save the discolouration. Gallup B50.

Aldington’s (Des Imagistes, H.D.’s first husband, to so reduce) processing of Eliot and Pound’s share in his poetical world in a professorial frame; a lecture given in 1939. A fine copy. Not in Gallup, being secondary.

First Faber paperbound edition. Partly censored, as the first Faber edition (1949), with some content returning. Wraps lightly rubbed and sunned. With Shakespeare and Company / Kilometer Zero Paris stamp to ffep. Detailed under Gallup A60b.

First American edition. One of the 999 copies with a cancel leaf pp. 23-24 (instead of the 3000 copies with cancel fold pp. 23-24, 37-38) performed very neatly. Near fine. Gallup A72b.

The China and Adams Cantos, to show the principles of good government. First American edition, second issuing without the pamphlet to rear, one of 500 copies. With publisher’s advertising slip laid-in. Ex-libris stamp (and scrawl) to front flap: Harless M. Kinzer / … Chicago 1945. Three or four brief pencil annotations. “Quincy” of “John Quincy Adams” correctly cancelled out by Kinzer on front of jacket. A mostly fine copy in a decent jacket with various tape repairs to back. Gallup A47b.

First American edition, review copy, with errata slip, publisher’s letter and card laid-in. Contents as the first English edition save three essays. A book whose design so evocative of its era. Light wear to jacket. Gallup A93b.

All six issues of Pound’s Money Pamphlets, being An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the United States, Gold and Work, What is Money For?, A Visiting Card, Social Credit: An Impact and America, Roosevelt and the Causes of the Present War, a collaboration between Peter Russell and Ezra Pound to communicate Pound’s ideas on economics, good judgement, and the political economy to the British public at an affordable price. Appearing, however, after Pound’s indictment for treason, each issue comes with an apology by Russell preceding; furthermore, the promised seventh pamphlet, Selected Radio Speeches, was not published.
  No. 1 is the first English edition, following an Italian publication in 1944 (Gallup A53a). No. 2 is the first English edition, following an Italian publication in 1944 (Gallup A52a), and is in the second, expurgated state with p.11, ll.40-41 and p.14, l.6 removed. No. 3 is a reprint of a short run first appearing in 1939 (Gallup A46). No. 4 is the first published English edition, following an Italian publication in 1942 (Gallup A50), with the publisher’s manuscript correction from “gain” to “grain” on p.18. No. 5 is a reprinting of the 1935 pamphlet published by London: Stanely Nott (Gallup A40). No. 6 is the first English edition, following an Italian publication in 1944 (Gallup A51). Note, then, through Pound’s continuing desire to educate, his shift from Italy as audience during the 1940’s back to an English (speaking) one.
  All issues in fine or near fine condition; the only comment to make is the small mark to the front cover of No. 1. With neat ownership inscriptions of William Kable (University of South Carolina) to Nos. 1, 2, 4 & 6. Gallup A53b, A52c, A46 (note), A50c, A40b (note), A51b.

Two essays by Pound, in their original Italian, both dated 1943, on the nature of money and the State-civilian relationship, both aimed to enlighten against a “regime of usurocratic capitalism.” Near fine; very slightly bumped top right corner, very minor sunning. Price to rear [L.] 1.500. Gallup A100.

A collection of Olson’s writings on EP, during Olson’s visits to Pound at St. Elizabeths from 1946 to 1948 when Olson was at the start of his career as a writer. Olson’s writing is typical of a student fighting against the rhetoric of their teacher, and a great document of what it is to evaluate Pound personally. First edition. A fine copy in a jacket discoloured to the flaps and top-edge.

An exploration of Pound’s literary influences, reaching from Yeats and Eliot to further fringes (see front of jacket). First edition, second impression. A fine book in a price-clipped, clean yet partly discoloured jacket.

A collection of material, being essays, newspaper articles, letters (the M.D.’s to Justice Laws), reviews on The Pisan Cantos, the Citation to Pound’s degree from Hamilton College, the announcement for The Pisan Cantos’ winning the Bollingen Award, all purposed at an evaluation of EP as poet-traitor in the late 1940’s and 1950’s. First edition, second printing (May 1959), published with an awareness of Pound’s release from St. Elizabeths. With a decent bibliography of newspaper articles and exercises for students to rear. A worn copy with pencil swirl to front cover; perfectly nice inside.

A neat leaflet curated by New Directions (presumably James Laughlin?) published for Pound’s 70th birthday, containing a number of statements about Pound and his poetry. With a portrait of Pound by Sheri Martinelli to front cover. Small crease to top; smaller creases to spine. Not in Gallup, being secondary.

Contains Henri Gaudier-Brzeska by EP, and Vortex by GB, as well as a number of illustrations of including drawings and paintings by Gaudier as well as photographs of his sculpture. No. 322 of 1000 copies; 1-500 in English, 501-1000 in Italian (Gallup D66). No. 58 in the Pesce d’Oro Series Illustrata. Without the publisher’s correction on p.27. Near fine. Gallup A73.

Mary de Rachewiltz’s Italian translation of Pound’s essay on Brancusi which opened The Little Review’s Brancusi Number (Vol. VIII, No. 1, Autumn 1921). With numerous photographic plates. No. 822 of 1000 copies. No. 57 in the Pesce d’Oro Serie Illustrata. Tiny tear to top of front, with a couple of marks to the jacket. Gallup D65.

Contains Certain Poems of Kabir, translated by Kali Mohan Ghose and Ezra Pound, and Altre Poesie translated into Italian by Singh. No. 23 in Pesce d’Oro’s Serie Oltremare. A fine copy.

A selection and Italian translation by Mary de Rachewiltz of references to Pisa from The Pisan Cantos. With a note from the editor (V. S.); and an unpublished portrait of Pound by Giuseppe Viviani. A very near fine copy. Gallup D8il.

Opening with a poem by Cima (in Italian, on Pound and Venice), then with Pound’s essay I livelli di Venezia (dug up by Mary de Rachewiltz), and 10 photographs by Walter Mori of Pound in Venice, some across double-page spreads, one of Pound reading The Scrolls and Christian Origins. A fine copy (save some rubbing to the rear fold of the dust jacket), one of 3000, and No. 13 in occhio magico (Serie fotografica).

Pound’s English translation of Enrico Pea’s lyrical novella. Set before the unification of Italy, Moscardino tells of the protagonist’s jealous love for Cleofe, a servant girl, and hatred for Don Lorenzo, a perverted abbé. As per Mary de Rachewiltz, “I think it’s fair to say that [my father] preferred novelists who at heart were poets.” No. 110 of 1000 copies. A very good copy, clean with some discolouration to spine, back cover, and lightly to the edge of the textblock. With ink ownership inscription of Morton S. Lebeck, “Firenze,” to ffep; Lebeck, together with his wife Anne, were brief correspondents of Pound during the St. Elizabeths years. Gallup A71.

Containing a plethora of great pieces: a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, Funes The Memorious, in English translation; an excerpt from How It Is by Samuel Beckett; an interview on The Art of Fiction with Henry Miller; an interview on The Art of Poetry with Ezra Pound conducted by Donald Hall; a translation of Book Sixteen of The Iliad by Christopher Logue (later as part of War Music); and many further EP contributions including Two Cantos (from 115 and 116), A Prison-Letter (i.e. “Note to Base Censor” published here for the first time), An Autobiographical Outline (written by EP for Louis Untermeyer), a scan of page one of the Pisan Cantos in manuscript with annotations in Pound’s hand, and numerous scans of artworks depicting EP. Very near fine.

After over a decade editing for various magazines (Poetry, The Little Review, etc.), The Exile is finally Pound’s inevitable own child, and remarkable in that from it sounds his voice more clearly than in most of his published writings to date. Pound speaks freely and at length on legalities, injustices (in Vol. 4 he publishes the whole of Article 211), aesthetics and culture, as well as the other contributors, including Yeats, Zukofsky and Rakosi (together the Objectivists), W. C. Williams, McAlmon, Rodker, and more (though one should note this was a misogynistic magazine which refused to publish any women writers, save a set of reviews of Olga Rudge’s violin playing). This set contains all those issues published in America, for whom the magazine was intended, after Pound ran into problems importing Vol. 1, published in Dijon, with the U.S. tax authorities (who deemed Vol. 1 a “book”). All volumes very good or better; Vol. 3 has seen repair to the spine resulting in minor glue staining inside.

“But Ezra waved his affected stick somewhere towards it all in a vague helpless sort of manner. . . . He waved his somewhat Whistlerish stick towards the river, the bridge, the lights, ourselves, all of us, all that we were and wanted to be and the thing that I wanted to say and couldn’t say he said it before he dismissed me: “And the morning stars sang together in glory”. . . .
  — H.D., Some Testimonies to The Cantos.

Margaret Louise Cravens was to Pound a friend, confidant and patron. In 1912 she committed suicide with a shot from a revolver to the heart, shocking the scene, particularly Walter Morse Rummel, but most especially Pound, in whom Cravens had most confided. Letters from Pound to Cravens only (alongside letters to and from Pound, Dorothy Shakespeare, Rummel and A. C. Henderson) as Cravens requested Pound destroy all her letters to which he complied. First edition, all fine.

A selection of Pound’s essays On [His] Contemporaries, being Yeats, Joyce, Frost, Brzeska, Eliot, Dolmetsch, Lewis, Brancusi etc. from 1914 to 1937, translated into German by Eva Hesse, with photos of each (and their work, where applicable). A near fine copy; dust-jacket mildly sunned, tiny trouble at head of spine. Gallup D32.

First (American) edition of Pound’s first 30 Cantos; the first appearance following the Parisian publication by Nancy Cunard’s Hours Press. First impression, with a cancel leaf for pp. 61-62 omitting the ‘i’ in ‘shit’ (Gallup only located 3 unexpurgated copies). A second impression followed with the same expurgation bound without cancels. A very nice copy, printed on much better paper-stock than the Faber edition, and clean throughout with a neat gift inscription dated 1934 to ffep. Some light marking to the cloth. Dust-jacket price-clipped, spine sunned and some scratching to the rear. Gallup A31c.

A number of Pound’s ‘collected’ (but not completely) poems went under the title Personae over the years, their content ocassionally shifting. In this revised edition, Baechler and Walton Litz include only the shorter poems of Pound published up to 1926, reintroducing the poems published but omitted from Personae (1926) by Pound, which Pound called “soft.” Also includes In a Station of the Metro in the original form (rarely reprinted), and the Urcantos. A good copy, a little wear to the wraps and a streak of black marker pen to the bottom edge. Fourth printing. NDP 697. Too late for Gallup.

As above, hardback issue. First edition, first printing, review copy with the publisher’s letter laid-in. Fine save the slightest sunning to top edge.

Louis Dudek’s self-published correspondence with EP, scans of the originals, be they hand- or typewritten, with contextual notes by Dudek. First edition, fine. Printed in black, not brown, contra Gallup. Gallup A95.

First edition, first printing of this ‘collected’ edition that kept Pound’s poetry on the shelves for years to come. Includes a selection of poems from before 1908 up to Homage to Sextus Propertius and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. A beautiful copy of this first printing; touch of shelf wear top and tail of spine; few light marks to cloth; page 91 partly torn with no loss; clean throughout. Gallup A27a.

First translation of The Pisan Cantos into German, by Eva Hesse, first edition. With an afterword and documentation on the DTC. Mostly fine, some sunning to the dust-jacket, but all very nice. Appears to have been missed by Gallup.

A collection of essays on Pound by various authors edited by Peter Russell, publisher of the Money Pamphlets and Nine. One of the very few UK publications of Poundian material to be published at this time, effectually reopening the Pound ‘market’ after the war years; certainly a publication with some reputational bent. A remarkable copy, with a touch of browning to the top of the cloth and a fine jacket only lightly browned. Not in Gallup, being secondary.

New (extended) edition (1952), first paperback issue, NDP 257, of Pound’s Kulch. Text clean throughout; wrappers worn with tape damage (no tears) to front and back covers, now wrapped in mylar; a commuter’s copy.

Third edition of EP’s memoir to sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, as the second edition (which omits Praefatio from the first but introduces 3 new essays, Preface to the Memorial Exhibition 1918, Gaudier: A Postscript 1934, and Peregrinations, 1960, dated Brunnenburg, Tirolo, 1960), with a new brief Foreword to This Edition signed E.P. A lovely copy only lightly sunned to top edge of cloth and jacket, and to spine of jacket.

New edition, review copy with the publisher’s letter laid in. A fine copy in a near fine jacket, small loss at top of rear. Not in Gallup, being Gallup.

In Pharos, No. 4. First English appearance of Pound’s translations of The Unwobbling Pivot (in Italian 1945) and The Great Digest (i.e. Ta Hsio; in Italian 1942), two of the Confucian Four Books. A near fine copy, very light discolouration around spine, light crease on front cover light pencil inscriptions on pp. 34-45. Gallup A58a.

An audiocassette containing Pound’s rrrecorded narrrrrations of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Cantico del Sole, Moeurs Contemporaines, Cantos I, IV, XXXVI, XLV, LI, LXXVI (second half), LXXXIV, XCIX, The Gypsy and The Exile’s Letter. 90 minutes. In original seal.

Davie’s brief introduction to Pound, observing his poetic influences and output, with chapters given over to Ideas and Rhythms in The Cantos. Sole edition. A neat and clean copy; light sunned on top of cloth with light browning to ffep. Jacket light rubbed, sunned to top edge and spine.

A publication that may have learnt something from Pound’s criticisms, being printed front to back without any wasted space; no title page (printed on rear of front cover), no publisher’s page (printed on rear of back cover). Contains a facsimile reproduction of How I Began (from T.P.’s Weekly, June 6 1913), Canto CXIV, and René Crevel by EP. Light discolouration to wraps and creasing to spine from leafing.

Letters between Laughlin and Pound, documenting the development of their relationship as pupil-teacher to publisher-author, with a number also from Dorothy Pound to JL. Edited by David M. Gordon, who studied with Pound during his internment at St. Elizabeths. Fine.

Fourth American collected edition, thirteenth printing. The first paperback edition of The Cantos. Includes Cantos 72 and 73, the former in both the original Italian and in Pound’s English translation. Review copy with the publisher’s letters laid-in. Fine. Too late for Gallup.

Select annotation and short essay on every canto, “the product of a highly sensitized understanding,” with a Select Bibliography of Sources to The Cantos at the back. Second (revised) edition, expanded to include The Italian Cantos. Fine.

The last edition of letters, together with those to William Borah and Bronson Cutting, to make up the largest corpus of correspondence between Pound and American politicians. Letters concerning Pound’s anti-Roosevelt campaign, opportunities found in Tinkham to withold America from the League of Nations, and preparations for Pound’s visit to America in 1939. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s letter laid-in. Fine. Too late for Gallup.

Twelve essays by Italian scholars translated into English for the first time. First edition, first printing, this copy distributed in the US. Fine throughout; some discolouration to the edge and spine of the wraps.

Contains An Encounter with Ezra Pound and A Lustrum for You, E.P. by Charles Olson, both published that same year in Charles Olson & Ezra Pound, An Encounter at St. Elizabeths (the former being published there as Cantos). With further contributions from Kingsley Amis, Louise Glück and Seamus Heaney. Fine.

Ana Eccetera was the self-managed, self-financed underground magazine of Anna and Martino Oberto, pioneers of the Italian post-war avant-garde. The two were influenced by the language theories of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the prose of James Joyce, and particularly the poetry of EP. Their work became core to the verbovisual movement (posia visiva) in Italy in the 60’s and 70’s, exploring the intersection between visual art and language.

Cantos 91, 96 [Ana Eccetera 0]: Excerpts from Cantos 91 and 96 translated into Italian by Enzo Siciliano. A tribute to Ezra Pound on his return to Italy, the first publication under Ana Eccetera, privately published and distributed di mano in mani, not for sale, in an edition of 500 (this no. 289). Two sheets folded and laid-in. Light wear to edge of wraps with a bump on the fore-edge passing from the front cover to p.2.

Ana Eccetera 1 (1959): The first of 10 numbered issues under Ana Eccetera. Puts forth the artistic use of methods under the metrical prefix ‘ana’, i.e. analysis, anapainting, anagraphy, anasophy (poetical philosophy)… of linguistic, philosophical, formalist interest; language as thought and, as Pound, art as reviver of extasis. Lightly ingiallito’d at edges, one small tear (no loss) bottom of first page. With a two page typescript translating selections from I & Supplement L into English.

Supplements: Three items (all parts) laid into a printed stiff paper folder. The first, Servizio di Comunicazioni is a collection of essays: «La Trahison des Clercs» by Vincent Miller (on Joyce, in English); Norman Holmes Pearson on the Square $ Series; Aberrations by Jurgis Baltrusaitis (in French); and two small pieces on Noel Stock’s Edge by Enzo Siciliano, in Italian. Light yellowing to sun and two folds to first page. The other two supplements, Supplemento A[rt] and Supplemento L[iterature] are both four page publications in stiff wrappers. A is Orazio Bagnasco’s Progetto di Pilotis, one print titled acciaio nero   lacca rossa. L is a short collection of quotations from Wittgenstein’s Philosophische Untersuchungen by Domenico Parisi. Both fine save light yellowing at edges.

First edition, first impression, one of 425 copies. Written after Yeats stayed with Pound in Rapallo in the late 1920s, and containing Yeats’ famous attempt to recount Pound’s fugal plan for The Cantos. Slight discolouration to edge of boards; small stain to back of linen; little trouble to top of spine and label there. Beautiful condition throughout. Not in Gallup. Wade 163.

The programme for the first production of Pound and Fleming’s Elektra, a collection of adverts in which is gathered a few articles and titles for the play. Together with two card flyers featuring same cover design and information on the play; two ticket stubs (pink card) for the Tuesday evening performance, November 17 1987, priced $18; Notes from the Director, an 8pp. photocopy on two leaves, folded and loosely gathered, a great brief piece on the simultaneity of Pound & Sophocles, Elektra and Pound, the House of Atreus and St. Elizabeths; finally, a promotional poster for the CSC’s 1987/88 season, the first play listed being Elektra, printed in orange and blue and folded to square format. All fine enough.

A collection of thirty-six articles by friends of Auden offering insights into the many stages of his life. First American edition. Sympathetic annotation in pencil throughout; dust-jacket edge-worn.