Two books from the Major C. H. Douglas, economist and pioneer of Social Credit, fostered in A. R. Orage’s New Age magazine, both of which highly influenced Pound’s early economic theories and which he reviewed, promoted, and suggested were translated into French in an article for Les Ecrits Nouveaux titled “Le major C-H Douglas et le situation en Angleterre,” 1921, lated reprinted by Piere Aelberts as Être Citoyen Romain / était un privilége / Être Citoyen Moderne / est un calamité, Gallup A84.

First editions each, both with identical contemporary ink ownership inscriptions. Both near fine, spines sunned and a little aging.

Douglas’s treatise on Social Credit, of which Pound was a proponent despite a tetchy relationship with Douglas himself. Third (revised and enlarged edition; May 1933), after the 1924 First, fourth reprint. Near fine in a wonderfully preserved original jacket.

A survey of economic interests at the time of the declaration of independence, including studies of each of those members of the Constitutional Convention, hand-numbered in ink in the margin in this copy, totalling 51. Reissue (1935) with a new introduction, third reprint (Pound himself had a copy of the second reprint, see Tim Redman’s cataloguing of Pound’s Library). A very good copy save for the loss of a certain amount of cloth to the spine.

Letters (many father from son), as well as a number of diary entries; a volume James Laughlin would’ve benefitted from owning. First edition, one flap of the dust-jacket printed to fpd; spine dust-soiled, otherwise very good.

First Scribner edition, after the 1928 Longman first. Spine faded with a little of shelf-wear, clean throughout; generally a very good copy.

A complete, four volume set of the Diary and Autobiography of John Adams as edited by L. H. Butterfield. First edition, each in their original jackets. Fine copies bar foxing to endpapers and pastedowns. Each jacket very good to near fine, with surface wear and occasional chips to spines, and a stain to the jacket of the first vol.

Fourty years of letters between the second president and his wife, with insights into the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the raising of president-to-be JQA. First edition. A fine copy of a fine, illustrated production.

A quality tome of some of the most significant correspondence in American history. Reprint after the 1959 first edition. A fine copy in fine jacket.

Letters not only of farm problems, gardeners & french horns, but also of political affairs both sides of the Atlantic. A fine copy in the original jacket rather edge-worn with a loss top & tail of spine. With a Suggestion Form from the University of York Library for a copy of James Parton’s Life of Thomas Jefferson, Da Capo 1971 laid into rear, dated 14-8-75, unascribed but David Moody’s.

Containing his Autobiography; A Summary View of the Rights of British America; Notes on the State of Virginia; Public Papers; Addresses, Messages, and Replies; Miscellany; Letters. First edition, first printing, on India paper with a map of north-eastern America inserted at rear. A fine copy in a lightly worn jacket.

First edition, fifteenth printing. Near-contemporary ink gift inscription verso of the frontispiece. Spine-side sunned with a small loss of cloth at bottom of spine. Pages of the prologue torn without loss.

The third and final biography by Bowen, following Justive Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Adams, giving the history of American independence; Coke providing the English background to the Constitution. Reissue after the 1957 first edition. Light crease to front cover.

Facsimile reproductions of seven publications held at Goldsmith’s Library of Economic Literature from A Brief Account of the Intended Bank of England (1694, the year of the bank’s establishment) to critical observations in as late as 1804. First edition, second impression after the 1968 first. A mostly fine copy.

Reprint after the 1885 first edition. With one ink ownership inscription to the fpd, and another pencil of George Kearns, Pound scholar, to ffep. A fair copy, generally clean but with some staining to the pastedowns and a little ripple to the first twenty pages suggesting light but not debilitating water damage. Cloth rubbed on edges.

A survey of the development of money and monetary systems. Two of del Mar’s books, Roman and Moslem Moneys and Barbara Villiers: A History of Monetary Crimes were included in Kasper & Horton’s Square $ Series, Pound’s six must (but hard to) have books. A facsimile reprint of the 1896 first edition, published under the directorship of Carroll F. Terrell; a rare edition. Lightly aged.

Facsimile reproduction of the second part of Sir Edward Coke’s Institutes of the Laws of England being an argument on the limits of royal power (Coke in trouble with King James), which was used again by John Adams during the American Revolution. Rare Omni edition. Wear to the spine; the first two gatherings disbound (the binding only glue). With quotes from T. S. Eliot and (anonymously) Pound to the wraps.

Or An Expose of our Banking and Currency Monstrosity—America’s Most Reprehensible and Un-American Racket

On the history of the banking system in America and its manipulations in favour of the few, with accusations against the Rothschilds family. With such tales as the founding of the Bank of England as we read elsewhere in Pound. The Rare Omni Publications edition (spiritual successors to Kasper & Horton’s Square $ Series), undated after the Meador Publishing Company first edition, 1941(?). Slight fading at edges to back cover and spine, otherwise as published.

Pound and Williams in the Jeffersonian tradition, and the divergent effects on Paterson and The Cantos. First edition, a fine copy. With David Moody’s extensive pencil marginalia throughout.