One of few contemporary reviews of EP’s Personae (1909), this offended anonymous reviewer accusing EP, as Pound would put it to Joyce in a letter of Dec. 1916, of being a “traitor to the imperium of Poetry.” Pound sent a copy to his Mother in Sept. 1909 writing,

I send along this delightful onslaught from the Nation. It is pleasant to be abused by one who knows nothing beyond the fact that he is annoyed. The ‘adv’ value is good & the reviewer has caused a good deal of amusement. - at himself -

He has mistaken insurgence for strength, treason for originality.

The inaugural issue of Harriet Monroe’s Chicago magazine, Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, which would go on to house the likes of H. D., T. S. Eliot, W. C. Williams, Marianne Moore, Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens. This first issue also sees two contributions from EP, who was soon to be instated as the magazine’s Foreign Correspondent, providing verse and verse-news from Europe, making this issue Gallup C52 thus. A near fine copy, a little stiff with some wear to the bottom edge of the front cover, and a light stain to the back cover.

A rare number from the first volume of Harriet Monroe’s Poetry. Containing a large contribution from American poet Witter Bynner, possibly under Pound’s advice; Bynner and Pound were life-long friends after Homer Pound entrusted the future of EP’s poetic career (or travels to Europe in 1908) to Bynner’s discernment as a well-established poet.

Staples rusted through the front and rear covers; a short tear bottom of front cover; and otherwise quite a fine copy. With a reviewatorial contribution from EP making this Gallup C72.

The first appearance of the tenets of Imagisme (using specifically the French term to discern Pound’s movement from Lowell’s), being both “Imagisme” by F. S. Flint (though composed from Poundian material) in which [EP] lays out the three famous maxims (direct treatment of the thing, no unnecessary ornament, to the metronome) and Pound’s “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste” which expands on the prior, defining the Image as an “emotional complex in an instant of time” and discussing rhyme, rhythm, and other verse values. Gallup C74.

A couple of spots on the spine, and a little wear to the oversized wraps particularly on the bottom edge of the front cover; a near fine copy.

A special issue of Poetry for its inclusion of one contribution, Frances Gregg’s poem “To H. D.” which publicises the pains of Gregg’s unrequited roundelling love for Doolittle. H.D., EP and F.G. all affected for each other at some point during their upbringings in Pennsylvania, with Gregg being given EP’s handmade Hilda’s Book by Doolittle for safe-keeping, which was buried in a shell blast in Plymouth which killed Gregg and her mother, 1941.

Part of the paper covering the spine lost, but a very nice copy.

The first appearance of parts of “Homage to Sextus Propertius,” published here as “Poems from the Propertius Series.” The poem was first published complete later this year in Quia Pauper Amavi. Also contains “Broken Windows,” eighteen poems by William Carlos Williams, each first appearance. Gallup C449 and Mitchell C34 thus. Wraps lightly handled, with a tiny break to the paper covering spine.

The first appearance of Ezra Pound’s landmark anthology, possibly the most important publication in the modernisation of English verse. Influenced by Greek and French verse, and following T. E. Hulme’s “School of Images,” Imagisme sought a new clearness in poetry free from Victorian ornament and form, but Des Imagistes: An Anthology, formed not exclusively of Imagistes (Doolittle, Aldington, Flint etc.) but of more than any one clique, became its own socio-literary movement, a proof of new energies in poetry, collected rather than scattered in reviews, and under Pound’s selection provided enough coherence in style to become very widely influential.

Precedes both the book issues. One of two nonprecedential states, the paper either with or without watermark; this copy with the watermark (“D” within a diamond above “Regal Antique”). Without any slip acknowledging copyright to Harriet Monroe’s Poetry, as appeared later. The same leaves that are used here were also used for the clothbound issues, published by Albert and Charles Boni in New York, and the Poetry Bookshop in London, neither having The Glebe’s device on the title-page.

The Glebe was the first of Alfred Kreymborg’s modernist reviews, and was co-edited by Man Ray. The magazine ran for ten issues from September 1913 to November 1914, each issue, including this one (February 1914) published in a run of 300 copies. In fact, the editors intended for “Des Imagistes” to be the first issue of The Glebe, but, as Gallup says, “the plans were changed by Albert and Charles Boni when they took over the financing of the periodical.” See Gallup B7.

Quick flecks of white to front cover, and a short tear to the fore-edge of p. 63. Unfoxed, with no breaking to the backstrip nor any loss; a near fine copy. Gallup C125, Boughn C20, [Wallace C2], Slocum and Cahoon C45.

Contributors: Richard Aldington, H. D. [Hilda Doolittle], F. S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Hueffer, Allen Upward, John Cournos.

The first issue of Wyndham Lewis’s Vorticist BLAST, the quintissential modernist mag, and England’s answer to Futurism and Cubism. With poems from Ezra Pound, the polemics of Lewis, the art theories of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and the most striking plates from Edward Wadsworth, to name a few of the contributors to this issue.

This copy particularly rare in that its wraps remain attached without repair; only a short loss of the paper over the foot of the spine leaves the front wrap partly revealing. Retaining much of their original colour, with some uneven fading towards the edges, two nicks, and a stain. Internally complete, with all the plates; quires bound out of order by the publishers between pp. 72-89. Marginalia in pencil by an artistic hand c. p. 120. Light, unobtrusive foxing throughout, with those iconic pages of blasting and blessing (London is not a provincial town, etc.) unaffected. Peculiar artefacts of tape (non residual) and text to the title page, probably from the storage or handling of the leaves before binding.

The first issue of this rare Philadelphian magazine which ran only for three issues total. Dedicated to the arts, particularly architecture, photography, and the machine. In all quite a beautiful magazine, whose “ornaments are fragments of road maps, racing sheets, stock market reports and telephone books.” Contains the first appearance of “The Flower” by William Carlos Williams, and is Wallace C143 thus.

One of 450 copies.The spine broken particularly at the top, the wraps generally grubbied, with creases and short tears near the edges. Internally clean and complete, remaining an important historical document, and quite unusual.

The Literary Guild’s monthly review, this one accompanying their publication of H. S. Ede’s Savage Messiah. Contains a brief biography of Ede, a review of Savage Messiah by Carl Van Doren, and “Modern Art and Gaudier-Brzeska” by EP, uncollected by Gallup. A good copy, lightly creased and a little dirtied outside.

Two issues of The New Age, operating after Orage’s death in 1934, both containing contributions from EP.

The first contains a “Review” by Ezra Pound of No. 380 of the French mag “Vu,” which contains “the first clear exposition of the de facto government of France, which is viler than any de facto government save possibly the English.”

The second issue contains only a note on the back-page by Pound, titled ‘A “New Age” Anniversary,’ describing The New Age as the ‘“skeleton in the cupboard” of the Social Credit Movement.”

Both at least very good condition, a little spotting and discolouration on the top-edge of the first issue, both issues with a little bleed around the staples, but overall beautifully clean and straight.

Two issues of Lake Como’s short-lived cultural review, Broletto, containing two of three contributions of EP to the magazine, under his usual “Servizio di Communicazioni.”

The first (34) contains “Binyon: Salutiamo una traduzione pregevolissima della Divina Commedia,” a review and recommendation for Laurence Binyon’s translation of the Divine Commedy; that is, a recommendation for Italians to read the English translation.

The second issue (36) contains “Orientamenti,” EP’s third and final contribution. Described as EP at his clearest by Claudio Sansone, the “ruminative article” is an ideogram on the expiration of Paris as the centre of letters, the concern of poets with economics, the wisdom of survival and the delay of those in cemented seats to see the world’s course. Not collected in Orientamenti (1944, Gallup A55) though possibly the namesake.

Both issues with some wear to wraps, cracking down spine, but very sound and clean internally. Gallup C1477 and C1486.

Two essays criticising TSE’s critical faculties, an eccentric privately printed pamphlet. Fine save for a little landed paint on the back cover.

A very pleasant memorial essay from R. Fitzgerald; not a Neo-Platonic study as expected. A well-handled copy, but clean and sound.

Five pamphlets issued by Vorticist painter William Roberts following an exhibition of Vorticism at the Tate Gallery, 1956, which he held exaggerated Wyndham Lewis’s responsibility for the movement. Each pamphlet bound in with their original wraps. Boards lightly rubbed and bumped with some discolouration to spine.

A complete set of one of the most important resources in Pound studies, scans of very nearly every item indexed in Gallup C, over 2000 items.

This set comes from a Japanese university library and as such each volume has a few markings, being: a sticker to the front board; a small stamp and score of black marker to the top-edge; the university library’s stamp blacked out using further stamping to the title-page. At the back of each volume one finds a pretty withdrawal form, with no withdrawals issued. Internally fine throughout. Some light rubbing or suface marks and scuffs to the boards, each in at least very good condition.