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.