London & Dublin: Maurice Fridberg, 1945. Cloth and boards. First edition of this new translation, with a few additional poems appended. Slight darkening, else fine in very good plus dust jacket with small chip.
London & Dublin: Maurice Fridberg, 1945. Cloth and boards. First edition of this new translation, with a few additional poems appended. Foretips slightly bumped, otherwise very good or better in dust jacket with a few tiny chips at corners.
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1932. Linen and boards, paper spine label. First edition. One of 250 copies printed. As one often sees with this title, the final gathering (colophon and blanks) and one interior gathering were printed on paper of less than perfect quality; the interior gathering is very faintly.....
[ London]: Prague Press / Allen & Unwin, [ 1945]. Small octavo. Printed boards. First edition of this selection. Very slightly bowed, else fine in near fine dust jacket.
New York: Prentice-Hall, [ 1949]. Thick octavo. Decorated cloth, with "Presentation Edition" designation on upper board. A few faint marks to cloth, but a very good copy, in defective dust jacket. First edition, limited issue, of this translation by poet/editor John Pauker. One of fifteen hundred numbered copies, specially bound.....
Sewanee: The Sewanee Review, 1945. Large octavo. Printed cream wrappers. Lower fore-tip bumped, otherwise very good to fine. First edition, trade issue, of this modestly early separate publication by Devlin, issued as a supplement to the April 1945 issue of the SEWANEE REVIEW, with the French text printed parallel with.....
Berkeley: In Aedibus Poltroni, 1990. Decorated wrappers, open-sewn spine. Fine in printed acetate wrapper, with prospectus laid in. First edition. One of 125 copies printed in Monticello and Bell types on Frankfurt laid paper, bound in Indian Bagasse paper, by A.M. Johnston. As new at publication price.
Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., [ 1912]. Small quarto. Parchment and boards. First edition. Early ink name on endsheet, narrow loss at extreme crown of spine, some inevitable mellowing and rubbing to the parchment spine and corners, but otherwise a very good copy of a fragile book.
Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., [ 1912]. Small quarto. Parchment and boards. First edition. Narrow loss at extreme crown of spine, some inevitable mellowing and rubbing to the parchment spine and corners, but otherwise a very good copy of a fragile book.
Milan: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1956. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. First edition of this translation into English of the first volume of IL ROMANZO DI MOSCARDINO. One of 1000 numbered copies, printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Fine.
London: The Casanova Society, 1926. Cloth and boards. Corners bumped, with loss of paper, else a good or better copy (without dust jacket). First British edition. One of 1500 numbered copies. Pound contributes a substantial postscript.
London: The Casanova Society, 1926. Quarto. Gilt cloth and boards. Spine faded and worn at ends, corners bruised, scattered light foxing, but a sound reading copy, without dust jacket. First British edition. One of fifteen hundred numbered copies (this copy unnumbered). Pound contributes a substantial postscript.
New York: New Directions, [ 1957]. Cloth. Portrait. Ink note on endsheet, else fine in very lightly used dust jacket with short, closed tear. First American printing (offset from British edition), first published issue, with leaf 23/24 an inserted cancel -- one of 999 copies thus.
[Washington]: Kasper & Horton, [1951]. Printed wrapper over plain wrappers. First printing in the Square $ Series format (with the first text ending on p.49). A very good, or better, copy.
[New York]: New Directions, [1966]. Small folio. Quarter vellum and fabriano over boards, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Fine in slipcase, with printed label. First edition in this format. From a total edition of two hundred copies (ten on Japan and 190 on Pescia paper) at the Officina Bodoni, this is.....
New York. October 1920. LXIX:4. Printed wrappers. Plates. Pencil note on rear wrapper, lower foretip of rear wrapper chipped away, otherwise very good or better. The first appearance this installment of Pound's translation of Remy de Gourmont's epigrams, accompanied by EP's notes, as well as EP's "Island of Paris Letter,".....
New York: The Rarity Press, 1931. Large octavo. Plum cloth. Later American edition, preceded by the 1922 Boni & Liveright edition and its reprints. Near fine in very good dust jacket with two internally mended tears at top edge of rear panel. Slightly uncommon in dust jacket.
New York: New Directions, [1957]. Cloth. Portrait. First U.S. printing, third or fourth binding state, with leaves 23/4 and 37/8 integral, the former corrected. Very good or better, in lightly soiled, price- clipped dust jacket with a few nicks and a small edge tear. The first (unpublished) state of the.....
Rapallo: Scuola Tipografica Orfanotrofio Emiliani, 1942. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Label mark on lower corner of wrapper, chip from top edge of title, just a good copy. First edition, ordinary issue, printed on unwatermarked paper, in buff wrappers. There were also an unknown number of copies printed on watermarked paper. An.....
[ Kansas City]: Hallmark Editions, [ 1971]. Cloth boards. Illustrations by Tom di Grazia. First clothbound edition (of LOVE POEMS OF ANCIENT EGYPT). Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Due to the intended market and methods of distribution of this edition, it is somewhat difficult to locate.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1962]. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. Illustrated. First edition. Near fine.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1962]. Small octavo. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. Illustrations. First edition. Spine faintly tanned, tiny Swedish bookseller's label, lower panel dust smudged, very good.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1978]. Printed wrapper over stiff paper wrappers. New edition, entirely reset, from the 1962 edition. Fine.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1951]. Large octavo. Gilt black cloth. Illus. First edition thus. Endsheets darkened, but a very good copy in slightly frayed and rubbed dust jacket.
[New York]: New Directions, [1970]. Printed wrappers. First edition, wrapperbound issue. Foreword by Basil Bunting. White wrappers toned, else very good or better.
