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 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 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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

“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 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.

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 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.

“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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.