39 consecutive and complete volumes over 125 issues. A complete set under William Cookson’s editorship, up to and including the Celebratory Issue for William Cookson, edited by Patricia McCarthy, accompanied by the first “Broadsheet 1.”

Consists in the main of curated issues, either upon a theme (e.g. “Rhyme Issue,” or “Myth Issue”) or dedicated to a certain writer, modern (Pound, Williams, H. D., Eliot), contemporary (Charles Tomlinson, Kathleen Raine, Basil Bunting) or historic (Arnaut Daniel, Dante) to name but a few from this diverse, expansive, Pound-appreciating magazine of poetry.

At least a very good set; light, general aging throughout. With ephemera as issued laid-in throughout.

43 consecutive and complete volumes across 84 issues. The centre of Poundian scholarship for the latter half of the twentieth century, containing thousands of contributions, essays, reviews, bibliographic studies, poems, photographs, and letters.

The journal ran for 31 volumes as A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship, but with C. F. Terrell’s retirement and passing (Volume 31 containing a laid-in “In Memoriam” and Volume 32 containing a laid-in invite to a memorial celebration), the journal was redirected to Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry which continue to this day (every volume postdating this set available at paideuma.wordpress.com).

Very good or better, with minimal foxing and rubbing to covers, occasional tears to spine; Vols. 20 onwards at least near fine. With ephemera as issued throughout, the occasional sheet of notes or marginalia from David Moody.

20 volumes consecutive and complete across 45 issues. Founded by C. F. Terrell, Sagetrieb served as compliment the Pound-centric nature of Paideuma, published in the same format with similar sectioning, bringing in a greater range of scholarship on writers such as W. C. Williams, H. D. (especially), Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Marianne Moore, Charles Reznikoff, Charles Olson, e. e. cummings, Basil Bunting, and on.

Primarily edited by Burton Hatlen (1936-2008) under Terrell’s aegis, the last issue (contents same as Paideuma Vol. 40) a tribute to Hatlen edited by Demetres Tryphonopoulos.

Most copies near fine; a little spotting on the covers of the older ones, cover of Vol. 5 No. 2 creased, the spine of the Marianne Moore Special Issue partly damaged. With the issue of “Bean News” laid-into the back of Vol. 15 No. 3.

A set of the most crucial resource in Pound studies, Ezra Pound’s Poetry and Prose: Contributions to Periodicals, containing scans of very nearly every item of Gallup C, over 2000 items spanning ten volumes plus a smaller eleventh Index and Addenda. A very good set, the occasional light scuffing to boards. The first volume is a photocopy reproduction from an original held at the University of York made by one of David Moody’s students; though purchased directly from the publisher, this set never came with a Vol. I.

A complete set of F. W. Dupee’s The Miscellany, a short-lived 1930’s literary periodical run out of New York which ran for 6 issues from March 1930 to March 1931, together with the wrappers only to the prospective number, December 1929. Most significantly, The Miscellany saw the first appearance of a number of poems from William Carlos Williams, none of which remained the same in later publications. In March 1930 Williams published “Birds and Flowers”, and in November 1930 two poems, “Love in a Truck or The Sea-Elephant” and “The Trees”. All three were next published in Poems 1929-1931. “Birds and Flowers” in the words of Williams’ bibliographer Emily Mitchell Wallace with “many changes”; “Love in a Truck…” with its title settled on “The Sea-Elephant”; and “Trees” “not the same poem.” Further interest also includes the first appearance of Yvor Winters’ “The Last Visit” and the second appearance of Conrad Aiken’s “Prelude”. With a typescript poem by Kenneth White (an unknown poet?), “Recital” laid into the March 1930 issue at White’s contribution, commencing with White’s New York mailing address. “Recital” does not feature in White’s contributions to either the March or September 1930 issues.

All issues in good condition only. Numbers 3 to 6 with water stains at bottom left corner running throughout; covers variously lightly marked and darkened at edges. Number 1 and 6 chipped along the spine. The December 1929 issue is in poor condition; presumably the content has been lost, with only a “Notes on Contributors” leaf remaining, and the wraps are torn but complete. A scarce set.

A complete set of Eileen Gregory’s H.D. Newsletter, two numbers a volume for 4 volumes running from Spring 1987 to Winter 1991. Functioning as a necessary forum for H.D. studies, the newsletter contains a wealth of contributions under scholarship, criticism, bibliography and biography; on both H.D.’s poems, her work in film, and her relationships. A beautiful large paper and type production, each copy near fine with some light discolouration to the wraps and a light crease to the front cover of Vol. 3 No. 2.

The Poetry Review, Number II, containing a number of contributions from EP, being Oboes (I. For a beery voice; II. After Heine; III. An Immorality)—Sub mare—L’Invitation—Dieu! Qu’il la fait—Δώρια, each appearing here for the first time. “Sub mare”, “Dieu! Qu’il la fait”, and “Δώρια” next appear in Ripostes, October 1912; “L’Invitation” not until the Collected Early Poems, 1976; and of “Oboes”, “An Immorality” appeared in Ripostes apart from the other two, which appeared without their “Immorality” in Umbra, 1920. An appeasing large paper production which unfortunately prints Pound’s verse in a smaller quotation size. A very good copy; small break to wraps at bottom of spine, pencil annotation “£1” to both front cover and contents page; small bump along top edge. Lay in on p.70-71 advertising drawings by Henry Ospovat, with a little foxing around there. Publisher’s errata for the January issue laid into p.82-3. Gallup C39.

The second issue of Harriet Monroe’s Poetry, one of the hardest to come by. Containing a review, by EP, of An Anthology of Modern Bohemian Poetry, poems primarily by Petr Bezruč translated by Paul Selver (Selver’s first contribution to the New Age) who met Pound through Orage and soon came to be among les jeunes (H.D., Aldington, Flint). Also contains the announcement that EP will act as the magazine’s foreign correspondent. A very good copy; staples rusting through covers (internally unaffected), light crease to bottom corner, oversized wraps lightly worn, small break to wraps at top of spine. Gallup C61.

The first publication of any of Carl Sandburg’s poems, “Chicago Poems” from a man living in Chicago in a magazine based in Chicago, though with transatlantic renown. Sandburg won the Helen Haire Levinson Poetry Prize for these poems, which attracted the attention of publisher Alfred Harcourt (of Harcourt, Brace & Co.) who published Sandburg’s first collection by the same name in 1916. With a further contribution from EP, “Homage to Wilfred Blunt,” which tells of the awarding to Blunt (the same “To have, with decency, knocked | That a Blunt should open”) by a committee of poets a marble by Gaudier Brzeska.

We, who are little given to respect,
Respect you, and having no better way to show it,
Bring you this stone to be some record of it.

An important issue of Poetry for its one poem of Sandburg’s “Iron,” following the first publication of his poetry in the March 1914 issue, “Chicago Poems.” The 1914 issues of poetry saw the first of Sandburg’s poetic, non-journalistic publications, and in a magazine based, as he was, in Chicago, for which he won the Helen Haire Levinson Poetry Prize. Light water mark to bottom edge of covers not affecting the text-block; a little foxing on the fore-edge of the front cover, and apart from that a beautiful, crisp copy of this issue.

Poetry, Vol. LII No. 3, containing two poems in first appearance from H. D., being “Sigil XV” and “From Episode 1” (section 2 of “Calypso” later reprinted as “Caught”), a dialogue between Odysseus and Calypso. A very good copy, wear to the edge of the wraps, pencil to the title-page. Boughn C120.

An important issue of The Dial containing EP’s “Three Cantos,” being the first appearance of the Fifth, the Sixth, and the Seventh Cantos. The Fifth and Seventh mostly consistent with later printings — minor syntactical and melodic differences; the Greek rendered in Roman for Canto V — while the Sixth here is very different (not, as Gallup says, the “first two-thirds only”). A range of other good contributions, poems from Amy Lowell and Mina Loy, prose from WBY and TSE, illus from WL and eec. A good copy only, the bottom of p.241-2 cut out thus losing the end of J. Middleton Murray’s essay “Puritan or Platonist?” and (the cause of the cutting) the “Briefer Mention” to Harry Johnston’s The Man Who Did the Right Thing; otherwise complete with illustrations. Top of spine broken; some pen and pencil to the front cover, wraps a little worn. Gallup C625.

The first appearance of W. B. Yeats’s The Tower, a poet’s song against the perception of age, the inevitable passing, and Ballyee Castle, a Norman castle purchased and restored by Yeats in 1917. The same poem also gave its name to Yeats’s 1928 collection, his first after his receiving the Noble Prize for Literature in 1923. A very good copy, wear to the edges of the oversized wrappers; some cracking to the spine; wrappers a little grubbied; pencil inscription to front cover. Internally clean, but with light pressure creases.

Orage’s last words over the radio, emerging for Rapallo from the crackle of Alpine thunder were: ‘in the gap between Price-values and Income is enough gunpowder to blow up every democratic parliament.’
Adnuit. That was a fine sentence to die on.

Or the Bitch & Bugle, Vol. III No. 3, April-June 1930, containing the first appearance of Cantos XXVIII, XXIX and XXX, following John Rodker’s A Draft of Cantos 17-27 (1928) and preceding Nancy Cunard’s Draft of XXX Cantos by a few months (August 1930), and any American appearance by a few years (1933). Also contains a cultural review by EP slating America for failing to publish a few writers and artists, titled “And the Remainder,” starting

“One person out of every twenty-two in New York state spends a certain period in an insane asylum.”
    Paris edition of an American daily paper.

Two copies of this elusive and short-lived mag from N.Y. which ran for five issues between 1933 and 1934. These both containing contributions by EP: “C. H. Douglas, Etc.” in No. 2 and “Ignite” in No. 3, which also contains a poem, “Night Piece” by James Laughlin IV. Lacking only No. 4 for a complete set of Poundian contributions to this periodical (Gallup C1080 and C1081). Only a handful appearing in exclusively American institutions, the majority only having Vol. 1 No. 1; the New York Public Library being the only to explicitly state a complete holding. Both copies very good or better; only two small chips to the cover of No. 2; light stain at bottom edge and a vertical fold to No. 3. Gallup C1010 and C1063.

Containing a rebute by T. S. Eliot of an article, “The Mystery of Ezra Pound” by G. W. Stonier which appeared in the previous, January-March issue, in which Eliot clarifies on some of his own relationship to Pound, such as the “miglior fabbro” dedication, and shames Stonier’s critical ability down into the gutter. A clean issue internally; the wraps lightly marked (more to rear), spine and top-edge darkened, very faint watermark to front cover.

Another copy, some foxing mainly to the title-page and fore-edge occasionally spilling in, a black smudge to the front cover, and a pencil ‘X’ to the essay by Eliot; still very good.

The first appearance of Pound’s complete translation of the Confucian Analects over two successive issues of The Hudson Review; preceded by the Fish of Gold leaflet, Confucius: Digest of the Analects (Milan 1937, Gallup A44) — a selected translation — and followed by the complete Peter Owen edition, Confucian Analects (London 1951, Gallup A65). The Spring issue further containing “Letter of Ezra Pound” to T. S. Eliot and W. H. D. Rouse, and “The Rose in the Steel Dust, An Essay on Pound’s Cantos” by Hugh Kenner. A very nice set, both clean internally, in the main retaining their original colour: top and fore-edge only lightly sunned, spines darkened, staples leaking a little; bottom corner to Summer issue with a light crease for 30 pages. Gallup C1720 and C1725.

Containing two contributions from EP, “Conversations in Courtship” and “Verse is a Sword: Unpublished Letters”. The former is a He Says, She Says, Pound’s translation of Boris de Rachewiltz’s literal Italian rendering from an ancient Egyptian papyrus. The latter twelve letters from Pound each to different recipients from 1935 to 1940, edited by Noel Stock to show Pound’s search for and dissemination of knowledge in current affairs. This copy inscribed by George D. Painter at the top of his article on p.322. With a newspaper cliping “New Nesting-Box for Fresh Talent by Cyril Connolly” annotated “25/12/60 Observer” laid-in. Subscription card bound in; Index to Volume One, 1959-1960 laid-in. A very good copy, clean wraps, the spine a little worn with a light fold to the back cover. Gallup C1882a and under C1881.

Number 26 in the University of Minnesota’s series Pamphlets on American Writers, being solely Van O’Connor’s (an editor of the series) essay on Pound. A very good copy, wraps lightly aged.

LE&W, Vol. X No. 3. A great periodical on the meeting of Eastern and Western literature, containing three Poundian contributions: “The Quality of Cathay: Ezra Pound’s Early Translations of Chinese Poems” by Pen-Ti Lee and Donald Murray; ‘“The Stone is Alive in My Hand” — Ezra Pound’s Chinese Translations’ by Angela Jung Palandri; and ‘A Gloss on Pound’s “Four Poems of Departure”’ by Richard P. Benton. This copy signed by Suzanne Henig above her poem on p.312, with her contribution circled on the contents page. A very good copy, the spine lightly worn and the wraps a little discoloured with light marks. Scarce.

With a contribution, “Ezra Pound: The Last Years” from Peter Russell, undersigned “Venice, December 1972.” Russell, who had worked with Pound remotely (printing him in the early 50’s) but had been estranged for some years discusses his own decision to live in Venice, his first meeting and conversation with Pound in Rapallo, 1964, and their time spent together in Venice, of many encounters and excursions, from which Russell records a number of Pound’s attitudes at the time; a further rare first-hand account of Pound’s funeral. With David Moody’s annotations in the margin throughout the 34 page essay, mostly naughts showing Moody mining a wealth of information. A very good copy, light aging to the wraps. Scarce.

The first appearance of Bernard Kops’ play, Ezra, in ADAM (Arts, Drama, Architecture, Music) Nos. 431-433, 1980. With one photocopy of the TLS (6 Nov. 81) laid-in, containing a review “Playing Pound safe” by Paul Driver of the first performance of the play at the New Half Moon Theatre, 1981; and another original newspaper clipping dated 26 March - 1 April 1983 containing a letter, “Freedom of speech,” by William Cookson defending Pound’s right to broadcast his radio speeches, and referencing Kops: “Bernard Kops’s suggestion that Pound’s Jewish friends forsook him in the end is a fabrication.” Reproduces a photo of Pound on the front-cover. Near fine, just a little age to wraps.

Four issues of Gambit, Nos. 17 (1970), 28 (1976), 36 (1980), and 41 (1984). Of particular interest is the conversation between Bernard Kops and the editor, discussing particularly Kops’s difficulties as a career playwright and rediscovery of Judaism (10 years preceding his writing of Ezra). All very good condition.

The fifth series of six of Cid Cormon’s Origin (1951-1985 and 2007), published by the NPF with Carroll F. Terrell’s assistance. A scarce complete Fifth Series of this periodical central to the Black Mountain poets and Objectivism in the 1950’s. Contributions from Omar Pound, Charles Olson, Gael Turnbull and more, including a translation of Ungaretti’s L’Allegria. All very good, light fading to spines, occasional foxing to back covers, No. 5’s covers a little worn.

The first issue of the Fifth Series of Cid Cormon’s Origin, featuring a statement by the editor on the influence EP had in the way a little mag should be run, with contributions from George Evans, Omar Pound, and the correspondence between Charles Olson and the editor regarding the start of Origin. A little fading around the spine and top edge; one scuff and a couple of spots to the front cover; perfectly fine inside.

Bradford Morrow’s “living notebook,” Conjunctions, a journal that has published writers no less than David Foster Wallace, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Bolaño and more; in these issues Jonathan Williams (plus his tribute to Basil Bunting), Robert Duncan, George Oppen, and William Burroughs to name a very few. Conjunction’s first 11 issues were published with Godine (these, with the Gaudier-Brzeska logo), shortly handled by Collier’s for issues 12-14, and from then on and to this day published by Bard College (see conjunctions.com). All great copies, No. 7 with a light crease to back cover, No. 8 with a bump to bottom corner of front cover, spotting on top edges and a very little scuffing to two spines.

Containing, in particular, Robert Duncan in interview with Michael McClure on Duncan’s organic and simultaneous poetics; with a little pencil marginalia from David Moody. A very good copy with light wear to the wraps.

10 issues of Clayton Eshleman’s Sulfur; A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art, a literary magazine from the California Institute of Technology founded in 1981, running for 46 issues in total to Spring 2000. Of Poundian interest particularly for issue 1, containing “From an Unpublish Draft of Canto LXXXIV,” 123 lines Pound removed from the final typescript largely accounting for his walk from Rome to Gais after the fall of Rome (where he and James Strachey Barnes were at the time, and deliberated a few days before both leaving in their own ways).

Many further items of interest in the run, including a three part serialisation of the correspondence of Edward Dahlberg and Charles Olson, essays from William Carlos Williams, poems from Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Boris Pasternak, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. The later issues containing poems from Charles Olson, criticism by DuPlessis and Marjorie Perloff, and criticism on modern art including Giacometti and Duchamp, together with a translation by Richard Sieburth.

Mostly very good condition, the cover of No. 4 a little rubbed; spots along the top-edge.

Quaderni di Palazzo Serra, 15; “Tigullio Itineraries: Ezra Pound and Friends,” Number IV in the Ezra Pound, Language and Persona Series. An awesome little publication giving “The Dorothy Pound Walk,” “The W. B. Yeats Walk,” “The Homer and Isabel Pound Walk,” “The Hemingway Walk - Montallegro,” “The Gerhart Hauptmann Walk,” “The Olga Rudge Walk - Sant’Ambrogio,” and “The Max Beerbohm Walk - To Zoagli and Chiavari,” illustrated with maps of the routes, annotated with points of interests, and further photographs. Near fine.

Scholarly periodical from the Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere at the Università degli Studi di Lecce containing, of Poundian interest,

- Stefano Maria Casella, “Ezra Pound fra teatro, opera e radiodramma: Le testament de Villon e Cavalcanti”
- Ezra Pound, “Tredici lettere inedite, a cura di Stefano Maria Casella”
- Cleonice Panaro, “Whiteman, Pound, Eliot, Stevens: la ‘poesia’ e il ‘mestiere del poeta’”

Three catalogued from the NPF at The University of Maine advertising their recent publications, with order forms part of the binding, suggesting one send in the whole catalogue to make an order. Catalogue for 1984 filled with advertisements for Poundian literature, including the NPF reprint of del Mar’s History of Monetary Systems, and Upward’s Divine Mystery with quotes from EP on the back; as well as C. F. Terrell’s On That Day advertised as “Not recommended.” Advertisements for Paideuma and Sagetrieb (and in the ’84, Origin) throughout. A photo of C. F. Terrell (1917-2003) by Walter Baumann in the 2004 number, aside a statement about the NPF. Condition mostly fine, a little spotting to the first.