POEMS FROM HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.
Phillips, ME: John Wade, [ 1999]. Printed wrappers. First edition. Publisher's review stamp on title. Near fine.
Phillips, ME: John Wade, [ 1999]. Printed wrappers. First edition. Publisher's review stamp on title. Near fine.
[London: Privately printed at the Curwen Press for Allen and Richard Lane, Christmas, 1951]. Natural linen, decorated in gilt and red. Slight offset to first page of text from facing woodcut, else near fine, without dust jacket. One of 1250 copies printed and bound by The Curwen Press. Facsimiles of.....
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1986. Small quarto. Plain wrappers, printed label.Upper corner bumped, but a nice copy. First edition thus, edited, with notes and bibliography, by Bruce Morris. An unnumbered "proof" copy, so designated by the printer/publisher, and bearing his presentation inscription to bookseller George Sims.
Cambridge: Houghton Library, 1986. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition (one thousand copies printed). Faint crease and sunning to upper wrapper, otherwise near fine. Updike, Lattimore, Ferry, et al.
New York: Voyages, 1956. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. Portrait. First edition of this translation. One of 100 numbered copies, specially printed on Tweedweave laid paper, and signed by the translator, from a total edition of 1000. Fine in slightly edge tanned dust jacket with small nick.
New York: Voyages, 1956. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. Portrait. First edition of this translation. One of nine hundred ordinary copies, from an edition of 1000. Wraps sunned, else fine.
New York: Targ Editions, 1984. Quarto. Cockerell paper over boards, printed label, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Fine in slightly torn plain glassine wrapper. First edition of Snodgrass's translation, printed in parallel with the Italian text and including sections of the score. One of 150 copies printed at the Grenfell.....
New York: Privately Printed, 1933. Parchment backed boards. First edition of this translation, limited to 75 numbered copies, printed on handmade Japanese paper. Binding edgeworn, pencil erasures to endsheets, else a good copy with the prospectus laid in.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913. Cloth and boards. First edition of this translation. With the ownership label of Herbert Boyce Satcher. Light offsetting to endsheets, corners bumped and lightly worn, else a very nice, clean copy.
Boston: Godine, 1970. Printed wrappers. First edition. One of five hundred numbered copies, printed in Centaur and Arrighi types, on Butten paper. Wraps lightly sunned, else fine.
[ New York]: New American Library, [ 1966]. Cloth. Plates. First edition in English, U.S. issue (bound from British sheets), of this substantial work by Ezra Pound's son-in-law, the English version undertaken by this significant poet/translator. Fine in very good dust jacket.
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1894. Stiff printed wrappers. Title and wrapper printed in red and black. Wrappers a bit darkened and dusty, clean splits up joints, but with no losses. Just a good, sound copy. First edition, unillustrated issue, of this translation. Inscribed on the front free endsheet.....
London: Faber, 1964. Cloth. First British edition. John Heath- Stubbs' copy with his bookplate. Publisher's review slip laid in, marked "with Compliments of the Author." Fine in somewhat edge- darkened dust jacket.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1933. Gilt blue cloth. First British edition. Endsheets lightly foxed, else fine in lightly chipped jacket.
New York: Macaulay, 1929. Green cloth, stamped in gilt (the primary binding). First edition of this translation, with a prefatory Note by Matthew Josephson. Small ink name and date on somewhat tanned endsheets, spine dull, with some flaking to gilding, a few old small tape shadows to endsheets; a good.....
Hamden: Shoe String, [1954]. Cloth. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Fine in near fine dust jacket. "Ezra Pound was tickled, thought it was the best piece of prose I'd ever written."
London: George Allen and Unwin, [1967]. Thick octavo. Gilt green cloth boards. Fold- out table. Slightly cocked, some smudging on edges, but very good in lightly soiled cream dust jacket with a 1.5cm wrinkled tear in the upper flap fold. First complete edition in English. Foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer.....
London: Thornton Butterworth, [ 1931]. Variant binding of green cloth, stamped in black. Portrait. Edges foxed, old ink inscription erased from free endsheet. A very good copy. First British edition of Zukofsky's first book, albeit a translation performed and published anonymously. The American edition is reported to have preceded this.....
London: Thornton Butterworth, [ 1931]. Brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Portrait. Ink name dated 1939, light foxing early and late, a bit sunned, else very good. First British edition of Zukofsky's first book, albeit a translation performed and published anonymously. The American edition is reported to have preceded this edition.....