Buffalo: Frontier Press, Summer 1964 - Spring/Summer 1965. Whole numbers one through three (all published). Three issues. Oblong octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Usual modest rubbing to glossy wrappers, but very good or better. Edited by Charles Grover and Harvey Brown, with Charles Olson as advisory editor. Olson, Pound, Creeley, Posner, Duncan.....
New York. 1986. XII:2. Folio newsprint (with wrapper photos by Arbus). Folded, faint damp mark to lower spine corner of upper wrapper and first few pages; just a good copy. One of an evidently substantial number of copies of this issue signed by Gregory Corso on the upper wrapper -.....
Milan: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1961. Small octavo. Printed wrapper over stiff wrapper. Frontis. First edition in Italian, translated by Mary de Rachewiltz, of CERTAIN NOBLE PLAYS OF JAPAN. One of 2000 numbered copies. Fine.
New York: Arrow Editions, [ 1936]. Small quarto. Pale green paper boards, printed labels. Small bookplate residue, crown of spine snagged by careless browser, resulting in a short crack at the top of the upper joint, boards a bit sunned at edges, top edge dusty, otherwise a very good copy.....
Chicago: Covici, Autumn 1927. Printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit sunned, else a very good or better copy. Rakosi, McAlmon, Rodker, et al.
[ Paris]: Jean Jacques Pauvert, 1974. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. First edition thus, including Pound's "Preface," which is a translation by Pierre Alien of Pound's 1939 CRITERION article. Near fine.
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.
Chicago. Autumn 1927. Whole number two (of four published). Printed wrappers. Spine a trace sunned, with small nick at crown, but a very good or better copy. Edited by Ezra Pound. Although Pound's association with literary magazines in an advisory capacity was an occupation which consumed a significant portion of.....
Chicago. Autumn 1927. Whole number two (of four published). Printed wrappers. Wrapper lightly tanned and soiled, small abrasion to rear wrapper, otherwise very good. Edited by Ezra Pound. Although Pound's association with literary magazines in an advisory capacity was an occupation which consumed a significant portion of his working life.....
[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, [1984]. xiv,151pp. Cloth. First edition, clothbound issue, of these translations from the French by Ezra Pound, edited with an introduction by Breon Mitchell. With the 1921 Preface by Marcel Proust. Fine, in a very good dust jacket with small snag at top of spine.
[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.....
Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center / University of Texas Press, [ 1993]. Cloth. Frontis and illustrations. First edition. Edited by Ira B. Nadel. Fine in very slightly rubbed dust jacket.
[New York]: New Directions, [1984]. xv,399pp. Large octavo. Cloth. Portrait. First edition. Edited by Omar Pound and A. Walton Litz. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a bit of the characteristic slight tanning to the laminated white portions.
[New York]: New Directions, [1984]. xv,399pp. Large octavo. Cloth. Portrait First edition. Edited by Omar Pound and A. Walton Litz. About fine in very good dust jacket with very shallow discoloration along the top edge.
New York: Norton, [ 1994]. Cloth. First edition. Edited, with notes, by David M. Gordon. Fine in dust jacket at published price.
