Though he trapse through the mud, his mind is set on higher things. A study of the troubadours, their influences on Pound in his poems and earlier cantos, and Pound’s belief in the cult of Amor. First edition. A near fine copy with the occasional fox and a light wear to the jacket. With David Moody’s occasional pencil marginalia.

A commentary on Pound’s Cantos, from their preparations to their final fragments, followed by a short chapter on the trends in Poundian criticism over the years. First edition, with the errata slip bound before the contents page. A near fine copy, hardly opened though with the occasional pencil annotation by David Moody.

Marsh’s biography of Pound, with annotations by David Moody partly critical of the book’s political lean. First edition, a near fine copy.

Letters from Pound to Meacham, a sales manager, poet and critic, from 1957 to 1960, with commentary by Meacham and a little further correspondence from Archie MacLeish and a reproduction of a letter from Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway to the Attorney General imploring Pound’s release. With facsimiles of some of Pound’s letters, and portraits. First edition; a beautiful production, fine throughout; jacket a little nicked.

  « a maunderin tongue in a pounderin jowl »
    — James Joyce

A neat essay, or series, on Pound’s treatment of Chinese characters and how to read them. A rare and pretty book, fine.

The first volume of David Moody’s three part biography of Pound, the result of at least this entire library on offering. First edition. New.

The second volume of David Moody’s three part biography of Pound. First edition. Three Two copies available, each both new.

Biography of Pound, replete with criticisms and corrections by David Moody; another good document of professorial correctness. First edition, near fine.

One interesting chapter on “Critical Reception” otherwise a little dramatic. First edition, paperback issue. Near fine.

Part of the Ezra Pound Scholarship Series edited by C. F. Terrell. One of the two books on the China Cantos to be published in ’83, marking the advent of developed studies of that section. First edition. A fine copy with a little forward lean, in an unevenly sunned jacket with some edge-wear.

Biography of Pound to date, this one with divisions by relation, such as Pound and Yeats, Pound and Frost, Pound and Eliot, and a chapter given over to Pound’s 1939 visit to the USA. First edition, near fine with blooms of foxing to first few and last few pages, in a good jacket with one tear to the back of the spine. With the occasional factual correction by David Moody.

A study of Pound’s world view, political, economical etc. with “Points of View” by cummings, Williams, Zukofsky and more (contributed to the 1948 ed.), leading up to a number of chapters on Pound’s trial which are annotated by David Moody with one note laid-in. With a short advert for the book by Julien Cornell (Pound’s attorney) laid in at the half-title. An expansion on Norman’s 1948 book by the same name. A fine copy in a worn jacket.

One of the great works of Poundian scholarship (of its day; or at least, one of the few on the shelves at the London Library). A study of the coherence of the form of The Cantos with the Commedia, and Pound’s developing treatment of time throughout the poem. First edition, a fine enough copy with the very occasional tick from ADM.

  “For Professor David Moody,
    Who sowed the seed of
    this book 30 years ago!”

First edition, lightly read with David Moody’s annotations. With a gift inscription from the author to David Moody backdated to, one presumes, the sowing.

“My belief is that only a detour through Heidegger can permit one to understand the ‘foundational’ position of Pound as a poet.” First edition. A near fine copy with light shelf-wear and the jacket’s spine sunned. With David Moody’s light marginalia.

A megalithic piece of Poundian scholarship, and to me one of the finest for its divergence and (you might argue) delusion. Read argues for The Cantos’ coherence, discovering Pound’s plan to be based upon a Calendar he published anonymously in The Little Review, Picabia Number, the Seal of America, the Constitution & Declaration of Independence, and the Four Tuan. First edition, paperback issue, with light paperback-usual creasing.

A kind of biography of Pound, with a personal account of Reck’s knowing him at St. Elizabeths. Reproduces a letter from Pound to Reck (who was then in Japan with the Army) guiding his translation of the Women of Trachis into Japanese; and, interleaved verse by verse with Pound’s, Fenollosa’s translation of Li Bai’s “Exile’s Letter” (partial) and “The River Merchant’s Wife.” First English edition, one year after the American. A fine book with Moody’s occasional annotation in a very good jacket, a few scratches to the back cover and one small tear to the front. With a photocopy of Michael Reck’s Memoirs of a Parody Perry from the Appendix of Ezra Pound & Japan, pub. Black Swan Press 1987, laid in to rear, dedicated in felt from Reck to Moody, 1983.

On Pound’s support of the fascist regime, and how he got there, through Orage, Douglas, and Gessell. First edition, a fine copy in a near fine jacket suffering only from sunning and a little shelf-wear. With David Moody’s marginalia throughout.

Annotations, explications, and variorum for the poems in Pound’s Personae (1926). First paperback printing. Wraps faded, spine sunned, otherwise fine with the occasional annotation from David Moody.

For the 80 pages of Adams Cantos, Sanders provides over 500 in per-canto commentary, elaborating Pound’s selection of the diaries of John Adams etc. to guide the reader to the understanding of the American Revolution that Pound demands. First edition, a near fine copy in the original jacket, lightly annotated by David Moody.

A study of the influences of the cultures of poetry and philosophy on each other in the Modern era. First paperback edition, lightly read, the spine sunned, with annotations by David Moody and an ink dedication from the author to David Moody on the half-title reading, “To David Moody, / On the same trail, / Sandford Schwartz.”

As per Kenner, “One of the basic items of Pound scholarship.” A juxtaposition of de Gourmont’s and Pound’s works, revealing new aspects of Pound’s political ideas and the late cantos. First edition, a fine book in a lightly worn jacket.

  “Nor doth it follow, that they cannot speake, because we cannot heare, or that they want language, because we want understanding.”
    — Thomas Fuller, Ornitho-logie; or The Speech of Birds

A study of the sound and language of Pound’s poetry, from Hilda’s Book to The Cantos. Sole edition, a fine copy.

Stock’s first book on Pound, after a decade of collaboration and editorials (Edge, Impact, Love Poems of Ancient Egypt), composed using unpublished manuscripts at Brunnenburg. First edition, a fine copy save spotting on the edges (not the pages) in a very near fine & beautiful jacket, unforuntately price clipped (cutting out history).

Stock’s tour through The Cantos, preceding Drafts & Fragments. First English edition, one year after the American. A fine book in a very clean jacket with one small puncture.

Stock’s biography of Pound, composed in part using unpublished material housed at Brunnenburg. First edition, fine in a troubled jacket with a few tape repairs.

“Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885, but he grew up in Pennsylvania.” Drawing from such a wealth of material that Stock thought this account worthy of a separate book from his Life of Ezra Pound. First edition, no. 533 of 1000 copies. A near fine copy, just a small nick to the cutaway framing Pound’s face on the front-cover. With the occasional marginal note from A. David Moody.

  “If Ezra Pound were a professor, there would be nothing left for him but suicide.”
    — W. G. Hale of The University of Chicago to Harriet Monroe, 1919

With the Latin & English vis à vis. First English edition, published one year after the American. A mostly fine copy, the jacket a little worn, the occasional marginal note from David Moody.

Surette’s third book on Pound, a study of the development of Pound’s economic theory (alongside those political and racial) from 1931 to 1936. Something of a development from Tim Redman’s Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism, extending the corpus of Pound’s correspondence to the previously unstudied letters with Arthur Kitson, Hugo Fack and E. S. Woodward, each anti-Semites. Surette characterises this period as Pound’s entry into confusion. First edition, a fine copy with David Moody’s marginalia throughout.

A set of essays by the great annotator on The Cantos. A chapter on “The Structure of The Cantos” presents venn-diagrams, wheels within wheels, traingles, and tetraktys arrangements for the China and Adams Cantos; the book not, however, including Forrest Read’s ’76 in its bibliography. Further essays on “Pound vs. Reductionist Orthodoxies,” “Debt-Free Money,” “The Divine Mystery,” a seminar-conversation student to expert, a review of EP and DS: Their Letters, Pound-Joyce, Pound and his silence, madness vs treason. First edition, lightly read with the top corner gently leafed; sunning to spine spilling over onto covers.

A biographical study of Pound marking the path that lead him to the Gorilla Cage and the bughouse. First edition, paperback issue. A fine copy with the very occasional annotation from David Moody.

Biography of Pound, with a critical note from David Moody laid-in, and his further pencil marginalia. First edition, a fine copy.

Wilhelm’s first book on Pound, a comparison between the two epic poets who, as Wilhelm identifies, are the only to write judgement at every step of the way. With due chapters on Guido Cavalcanti, mentor to Dante and mask to Pound. Readers may aso be interested to find Wilhelm’s Il Miglior Fabbro: The Cult of the Difficult in Daniel, Dante and Pound (1974). First edition, the spine sunned with a touch of shelf-wear, otherwise fine, lacking the jacket. The occasional pencil note by David Moody.

On Los Cantares and Drafts & Frags., an explication via Pound’s interests in Dante, Neoplatonism, Confucius, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Medieval Architecture, Byzantium etc. First edition, a near fine copy in a smart jacket.

A three volume biography of Pound by J. J. Wilhelm. The first part a climbing up Pound’s family tree, which Pound himself claimed stood for a miniature “social history of America”; the second part largely focused on Pound’s social circles, with incredible chronological research; the third on the remainder, as we all know, and composed in chapters given over to single years or small spans of years. First editions all (1985, 1990, 1994), each fine in near fine jackets (spines sunned, third with a mark to front cover), with occasional pencil annotations from David Moody and a number of notes in ink laid into the first volume.

An introduction to the life and works, with a little on the Italian Cantos. First edition, not terribly common, & mostly fine.

“Indispendable,” in Kenner’s words. A study of Pound’s poetry from ALS to HSM, including pieces unpublished. Inscribed to David Moody on the half-title, “with thanks for his hospitality,” dated 1984. The usual noughts and crosses in the margin from David Moody. First paperback edition after the 1969 first. Spine sunned from grey to green, touch of damage at top of spine, front cover lifting; with the occasional pencil from David Moody.

On Pound’s “temperament,” which is a nice word to use on the poet in his tent, watching wasps. First edition, a fine copy in a near fine jacket, the spine sunned. With a little pencil from David Moody.

Translations or translucencies; Yip’s deep dive into Pound’s highly influential Cathay (1915) and, given the influence Fenellosa had on Pound, a study of Pound’s lifelong poetic technique. First edition, near fine in a good price-clipped jacket, lightly browned along the top-edge, edge-wear at the top and tail of the spine, and a repaired break to the back. With one note in ink from David Moody laid-in.