An easy & enjoyable biography of Pound, profusely illustrated. First English issue, with Thames and Hudson’s price sticker to the rear, and their publisher’s logo in gilt to the front of the cloth. A touch of foxing to the title page, otherwise near fine. With the very occasional marginal symbol from David Moody, in one place correcting a reference.

A walk through Pound’s poetry from Personae (1909) to Draft & Fragments (1970). A study on The Cantos via the earlier poetry, and how Pound’s epic grew out of those poems. Annotated by David Moody with small pencil marginalia throughout, highlighting, questioning, disagreeing or correcting the text; marks of great erudition. Review copy, with the publisher’s slip laid-in. Light foxing around the prelims, but otherwise fine.

Bacigalupo’s study of the Pisans, Rock-Drill and Thrones for those for whom these cantos divert too greatly into Cavalcanti’s “dove sta memoria” — Pound’s repeat, recontextualised, teaches by the same method we learn language (credit due). Annotated thoroughly, if often symbolically, by A. David Moody throughout; another great example of scholars reading scholars. With an ADDENDA & CORRIGENDA photocopy (or fax?) laid-in, footed “M.B., April 1981.” Dust-jacket a little worn with one tear.

An Italian lense on the poetry, and the poem’s lense on Italy, by the Rapallese scholar and Pound expert Massimo Bacigalupo. First edition (only hardback edition), a fine copy, as new.

A detailed account of New Directions’ marketing of Pound. First edition, a fine copy; the spine sunned to white. Annotated lightly throughout by A.D.M.

Walter Baumann’s seminal study of Cantos IV and LXXXII, and The Cantos under the Odyssean guise. Baumann explores both the divisibility of the poem into inter-referential fragments, and the availability of more singular aspects of the whole. First edition. A touch of pencil to each cover; light foxing to first and last few pages; some light wear to the wraps, otherwise nice.

In Pound’s final semester at Hamilton College, he studied Old Spanish, Old French, Old Provençal, Old English, German, and Physics; the last being a college requirement, and maybe this education also stuck. Critic as Scientist is a study of the scientific vocabulary and method EP harnessed in his work as critic of the arts. With chapters of geometry, laboratories, vortices, and memories. First edition. Light foxing to endpapers, spine of jacket sunned.

Bernstein, “Far from being absolutely autonomous and divorced from daily reality, the “tale of the tribe” is intentionally directed towards reality, and is expressly fashioned to enable readers to search the text for values which they can apply in the communal world. The ideal relationship between history and the tale, therefore, is one of perfect interpenetration.”

On Pound’s Cantos, Williams’ Paterson, and Olson’s Maximus Poems. First edition, paperback issue, a “Limited Paperback Edition” which the publishers deem to be “too specialized to be issued in the larger quantities that are ordinarily required.” A largely fine copy, spine presumably sunned (not green).

The unorderly student’s guide to Pounding, and an energetic entry (angle of entry, not first time encounter) to EP. First edition. Jacket very lightly worn, a little sunning to spine; some foxing around the first few pages, otherwise very nice.

An attempt at non-interpretive annotation to Pound’s poems, being a selection from Personae, Ripostes, Lustra, Cathay, Sextus, Selwyn, and The Cantos. With marginalia from A. David Moody particularly to The Cantos, often corrections. First edition. A fine copy save a small nick to the top right of the jacket.

A broader study of the genesis of Pound’s Cantos, not by just the early poetry but by painting, music, economics and history. First edition. A fine copy save a little edge-wear to the jacket, with a handful of marginal notes by David Moody.

Nigh 1000 pages of Poundian biographical study, with the occasional marginal note by David Moody. Reprint, after the 1988 first. Wraps a bit worn.

A study of the translation, history, and the political and religious setting of Pound’s Confucian translations, with a further chapter on “Confucianism in The Cantos.” First edition, a fine copy; the dust-jacket folding outwards slightly; with a couple of marginal notes by A. David Moody.

First edition. A near fine copy, the top edge a little bumped. With annotations and corrections by David Moody, from around the middle of the book on.

Cookson’s blurbs and annotations to The Cantos. First edition, paperback, published simultaneously with the hardback. A near fine copy. With a few corrections by David Moody, and a cutting of the TLS September 5 1980 laid-in featuring a letter to the editor, signed William Cookson, commencing, “Sir,— A. D. Moody is right to argue (August 15) that The Cantos…”

Documents and letters relating to, and a full transcript of Pound’s trial, “by the Defendant’s Lawyer.” First English edition, in a lightly worn jacket. Regularly annotated by David Moody, with a couple of laid-in notes, and a modern photocopy of a letter from Cornell to Dr. Wendell Mucie, dated 1945 (reproduced in full on p.29).

Davie’s first book on Pound. First edition, published concurrently with an American edition. Spine mottled with a small hole in the cloth; clean inside. With A. David Moody’s pencil ownership inscription to ffep.

Davie’s second book on Pound, a bus book. Stock browned, with the very occasional note by ADM.

K.D.’s influential formal hypothesis upon The Cantos. A wonderful copy, with the occasional positive annotation by David Moody, though starting on p.1 with “!x How can she be so wrong?” A fine copy, first edition, paperback issue.

Dekker’s study of The Cantos, with exegetical intent but much a close reading. First edition, the jacket a little split at the top of the spine but overall a beautiful copy. With A. David Moody’s pencil ownership inscription to ffep.

An analysis of Pound’s translation for their feng and cheng (that is, their right wind and its correcting effect). First English edition. A fine copy in a rubbed jacket with “3 / Jan” written in pencil down the spine. A cutting of the TLS, April 2 1964 laid-in, featuring an unsigned review, titled “Translating the Wind,” of Dembo’s book.

“In true troubadour tradition Pound sings love, war, politics, and ideals all in one canto. The poetry indicates the potential fusion of the ideal lady and ideal city, but recognises that actual government and the ideal civilisation are not yet synonymous. The love ethos and visionary ideal contradict war ethics and are posited as a means of ameliorating culture.”

Dennis’s first book, presumably her thesis, a study of Provençal literature elucidating Pound’s own use, from the poems in A Lume Spento riding right up to the Pisan Cantos. Volume 21 in the Studies in American Literature series by The Edwin Mellen Press, dedicated, in print, to A. David Moody. First edition, back cover with one bit of damage. A very uncommon book, available at institutional prices from the publisher.

Described by Alec Marsh as a “lamentable book,” a glimpse into the scholarly prowess of the House of Lords. First edition, near fine.

John Driscoll’s thesis at Uppsala University, first edition, under the university’s press. Published in 1983, the same year as John Nolde’s Blossoms From the East, marking the advent in Poundian scholarship of studies dedicated to the China Cantos. A study of the process between poet and source, particularly on Pound’s use of de Mailla’s Histoire Génèrale de la Chine and the reflection of its form (vols. X and XI are composed by de Mailla and his editors from available contemporary documents, while I to IX are a direct translation of the Manchu text) in The Cantos. A very faint handling crease to the front cover, but a fine copy.

The first major gloss of The Cantos, grown out of an effort by Edwards & Vasse in The Pound Newsletter. First edition, review copy with the publisher’s slip pasted upside-down to rfep. With an unidentified ownership inscription in pencil to ffep, and the very occasional annotation by A. David Moody. Cloth slightly worn, in the original soapy jacket a little torn.

On the mutual influence of these modernists. First edition, with one reference resolved by A. David Moody. Very pretty out of its jacket, but also in a very nice jacket (a very small break top-back of spine).

The most popular study of Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, first edition before the corrected (under Pound’s instruction) second edition. Light annotated by David Moody with three notes in ink laid-in. A fine copy.

On Le Testament and Pound’s lesser-known, later discovered Cavalcanti, as well as small fragmentary compositions and their musical, technical, and publication history. Fine in a near fine jacket, the spine sunned, with a few pencil annotations by David Moody throughout.

A study of Pound’s psyche from an early age, with emphasis on his reaction to the Abyssinian Crisis, his incarceration in St. Lizs, and his return to Italy. Staining to pages 221-224, otherwise a fine copy with David Moody’s occasional marginalia.

Sixth in the line of glosses to Pound’s poetry. With a brief study of the Women of Trachis. NDP548, light aging, with the occasional pencil by David Moody.

  But whats all this to us? The modern world ……… !”
  Here is your modern world, and I’m no Stendhal :
  “Napoleon lands from Elba, north upon Lake Come
  An ignorant boy sets out … how wild the fire ran,
  Fabrice, falls upon Waterloo, Chartreuse de Parme,
  the first eleven chapters.

    — EP, Canto IV mss., 1915

A study of the composition of The Cantos by its unpublished manuscripts, particularly that of Canto IV, the first completed. With interesting diagrams of variorum. First edition. A fine copy save one small tear to the jacket. Annotated throughout by David Moody.

From the Open University’s Open Guides to Literature series, a short introductory book covering Pound’s work up until 1920, the final chapter being “Approaching The Cantos.” With the occasional annotation by David Moody. First edition, a fine copy.

A study of Pound’s use of documents in The Cantos, passages often quickly dismissed for their lack of poetry, though as Furia argues they are the “luminous details” provided by EP. A fine copy, the spine sunned.

A biographical pass focusing on the politics and economics, mainly Italy on. First edition. Near fine, spine sunned. Annotated lightly throughout by David Moody.

A popular account of the young poet’s first five years in London. A good copy, head of spine bumped, jacket a little aged, otherwise clean & fresh throughout. With a photocopy of a printed letter from EP to Hutchins emphasising E.P.’s KENSINGTON, NOT London. “Was not in London. months , possibly years never east of Cursitor St.” Gallup B79.

The second gloss to The Cantos, building on Edward & Vasse’s and published just before Terrell’s. Not, for the most part, annotations, but instead short essays on meanings and contexts. First edition, a very good copy, the front cover lifting slightly, top and tail of spine lightly bumped. Fleetingly annotated by A. David Moody.

A small book on The Cantos, most useful for its last chapter which studies each of the poem’s “Representative figures,” Conf., Fen., Ovid, Erigena, Cavalcanti, Douglas, Adams, and Mus. First edition, a fine copy.

Kenner’s first book on Pound. First Kraus reprint edition, following the 1951 first edition. With A. David Moody’s neat pencil ownership inscription to ffep, his very occasional pencil annotation elsewhere; a large bottom corner of the ffep removed.

First English edition. Tiny bit of trouble to the top of the jacket’s spine, foxing to flaps, light foxing to endpapers, pencil scores to the bottom edge. With the neat pencil ownership inscription of A. David Moody to ffep, his further pencil annotations to pp. 151, 323, 351, 379, 391, 451, 453, 458, 468-9, 475-6, 495, and a photocopy of a letter from HK to EP laid-in.

On the friendship between EP and HD which lasted their lifetimes, and various parallels in their poems. First edition, the top edge of the jacket turning outwards slightly, otherwise fine, with a couple of pencil annotations by David Moody.

On Pound’s translations, the “Five Types of ‘Misreading’” there-in, and the political and spiritual readings of Kung-Pound. First edition, clothbound issue in dust-jacket, fine. With pencil marginalia throughout by A. David Moody.

The first of three “Portrait Books” by Levy, this split into five parts, a biography, a mosaic of quotes, an essay on “experiencing” EP, a bibliography (primary and secondary) and a chronology. With a couple of disagreements from David Moody in the margin. A fine copy.