A late, revised edition, 3rd impression, of Pound’s first book of prose, upon the poets & playwrites that inspired him in Romance languages. Printed with spacious margins begging to be scrawled in. Jacket spotted & lightly stained, book fine within. Missed by Gallup, otherwise under A5.

Pound’s offering to those who want to know more by the age of fifty than he knows “today”. A few pencil notes in the margin by David Moody. Jacket lightly spotted with edge-wear; book fine within. Fourth impression, so stated on front flap, also not in Gallup, otherwise A45.

“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. One or two pencil annotations by David Moody near the start. A fine book; jacket with minimal wear. Not in Gallup.

A later publication of the 1954 edition; 305 Confucian poems translated into English by EP. Slight wear / creasing to the wraps, but fine inside. Detailed under Gallup A96b but not indexed.

A fourth reprinting after additions of Faber’s paperback Selected Poems, with David Moody’s brief pencil annotations to the contents pages noting Cathay as “complete” and denoting the order of appearance of the poems in Personae, 1908, 1909, 1910. Fine save discolouring and light creasing to the spine. This printing too late for Gallup, but otherwise A97b.

Second edition of the Posthumous Cantos, vis-à-vis Italian translations presumably by Massimo Bacigalupo. Occasional ingiallendo to the edges, top right corner bumped, but overall very nice. Much too late for Gallup.

French translations of select cantos from XXX to Thrones, by five translators. Scarce pocket edition. A very good copy slightly browned at the edges of the paper. Too late for Gallup.

First Japanese translation of Pound’s first book of poems. With a small white postcard and two price lists laid-in. Inscribed to A. David Moody by the translator on second ffep (leafing right to left), dated October 1990. A small break to the tissue on (back to) front cover. Too late for Gallup.

First French translation of Pound’s essay, I Gather the Limbs of Osiris, containing Pound’s early scholarly method, Luminous Detail, first appearing in the New Age, Nov. 1911 to Feb. 1912. Inscribed to A. David Moody by Jean-Michel Rabaté on the ffep, dated Dijon, March 1991. With David Moody’s occasional pencil inscription and a handwritten note laid in. A further postcard announcement laid-in from the publisher. Some light sunning at edge of spine, and a light crease to spine. Too late for Gallup.

Three essays of Pound’s written between 1933 and 1944, all composed originally in Italian, being Lavoro ed Usura (consisting of: Oro e Lavoro, L’America, Roosevelt, e le cause della guerra presente, Introduzione alla natura economica degli S.U.A), L’Economia Ortologica and Nuova Economia Editoriale. Third edition after Pesce d’Oro’s 1954 and 1972 editions, with an added preface by Paolo Savona, Italian economist and politician. A fine copy. Too late for Gallup (give us Henderson!).

A selection of 9 letters from Pound to Louis Untermeyer, with reproductions of the originals. First & sole edition, mostly fine save spotting to top-edge, in the original acetate wrapper with two tape repairs to rear and well preserved. Gallup A81.

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. A fine copy, the spine faded, with a few pencil marks by A. David Moody to the introduction.

The first volume in The Correspondence of Ezra Pound series by New Direction, letters of EP to JJ with Pound’s essays on Joyce. Edited by Forrest Read, author of the megalithic ’76: One World. First English edition, published one year after the American. A mostly fine copy, slight shelf-wear at top & tail of spine, and a smudge on the copyright page. David Moody’s occasional pencil marginalia throughout. Gallup A88b.

Joseph Darling Ibbotson (1869-1952), or “BIB” to Pound, was a Professor of English Literature, Anglo-Saxon & Hebrew as well as Librarian at Hamilton College, and one of the three faculty members who influenced Pound’s career and remained friends for life. Pound’s photograph in the 1905 Hamiltonian is captioned “Bib’s pride,” and as Pound wrote to Prof. Harold W. Thompson of Cornell, “The CANTOS started in a talk with BIB.” These 36 letters, all from EP to Ibboston, with the occasoinal from DP, begin in 1935, with Pound in Rapallo, and end in 1952 on Ibbotson’s death. With scans of the originals. One of 400 copies, with the publisher’s errata slip laid-in. With pencil annotations by David Moody. Jacket lightly foxed, blooming on flaps, top-edge lightly worn; top-edge of leaves spotted. Gallup A102.

The second instalment in The Correspondence of Ezra Pound series by New Directions, this here the first English edition published concurrently with the American. Very occasional symbolic pencil annotation by David Moody in the margins. Light wear to fore-edges and spine of jacket. 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. Edition for those who prefer a paperback. Could even be shelved outwards. A little streaking to spine & spotting to edges; covers gently opening. Too late for Gallup, otherwise A64.

Letters from 1914, commencing with the editing of Blast, till Wyndham Lewis’s death in 1957. First English edition, concurrent with the American. With the occasional pencil annotation by David Moody, and a small note in ink laid-in. Jacket with a little light, inconsequential wear. Too late for Gallup.

    and the hostess grinned: Eso es luto, haw!
mi marido es muerto
    (it is mourning, my husband is dead)
when she gave me paper to write on
with a black border half an inch or more deep,
  say 5/8ths, of the locanda

of which was sent to Viola Baxter, who met Pound at a Hamilton College dance, in May of 1909 from Alcazar. A tale or two of Pound’s touristic trouble with the locals, against good hospitality & his travelling forth. One of 500 copies printed in celebration of Pound’s 100th birthday, with colour reproductions of the letter and envelope. Fine in the original card and clingfilm packaging.

Letters between Pound and fellow poet and protégé Louis Zukofsky. The fifth volume in The Correspondence of Ezra Pound series by New Directions. First English edition, concurrent with the American. With the very occasional symbolic pencil annotation by David Moody (circles and arrows). Head of spine a little pressed, otherwise fine. Too late for Gallup.

A collection of letters and essays documenting Pound’s involvement in art, literature, and culture in Japan, extending from 1911 to 1968. First edition. Jacket a little scuffed at the top of the spine. With the occasional pencil annotation from David Moody. Too late for Gallup.

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. David Moody’s very occasional pencil annotation, and photocopies of two pages of Margaret Anderson’s My Thirty Years’ War laid in to front, annotated in ink. Too late for Gallup.

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. With small pencil marginalia by David Moody, and a few notes in ink laid-in. A very near fine first edition. Too late for Gallup.

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. With very occasional pencil marginalia by David Moody, as highlight, reference, or correction. A mostly 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 very near fine copy; top edge of jacket slightly folding outwards. Too late for Gallup.

Selected letters between these lifelong friends and fellow poets, who first met while at the University of Pennsylvania together; from 1907 to 1963. First edition, with gift inscription from Hugh Witemeyer to David Moody, the very occasional pencil annotation in David Moody’s hand, and a scan of a letter from David Moody to Hugh Witemeyer laid-in at front, dating November 1996.

  Dear Hugh,

  I am at work here in the HRC, till mid-December, Pounding as you might suppose -
  having pounded for five weeks at the Lilly in Bloomington…

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. A fine copy, annotated quite extensively in pencil by David Moody. Too late for Gallup.

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, the jacket lightly lifting; David Moody’s very occasional pencil circles in margin. Too late for Gallup.

Pound’s text-book to be read “for pleasure as well as profit.” First edition, in the original dust-jacket with light marks & darkened to spine. Ex-libris of Stanley Leonard (?), with his ink ownership inscription to ffep and, unusually, to the front of the jacket. Further annotations in red ink, all simple underlines or scores in the margin, performed with a ruler and so neat you might’ve thought the book was published with them. The boards & gilt of this copy incredibly rich in colour. Gallup A35a.

Another copy, first edition, lacking the dust-jacket. Cloth quite faded, coming out almost salmon; a few light marks & scuffs. A very decent copy. Gallup A35a.

Twelfth printing (date unknown), inscribed to Lorna Ann Barton (possibly of Pink Floyd fame) from “Rosa”. Fine throughout with somewhat rubbed and lightning streaked wrappers. NDP 66. Gallup A62b.

An essay by WL on EP, together with three drawings of EP by WL. First published in Peter Russell’s 1950 An Examination of Ezra Pound. No. 217 of 1000 copies. First in the Fascioli del Verri series. Wraps browned at edges. Not in Gallup, being secondary.

First Italian translation of H.S.M., printed vis-à-vis the English. With three previously unpublished drawings of Pound by Jean Cocteau. No. 492 of 1000 copies. Fourth in the Fascioli del Verri series. A near fine copy. Gallup D75.