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PERSONAE : THE COLLECTED POEMS OF EZRA POUND INCLUDING RIPOSTES, LUSTRA, HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS, H.S. MAUBERLEY
by Pound, Ezra
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Norfolk, Virginia: New Directions, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. Norfolk, Virginia: New Directions, (1926) 1946. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. (16), 231. Blue cloth with titles in gilt on cover and spine. Liveright on bottom edge of spine. New Directions printed on bottom of title page.
Corners bumped, light wear to head and tail of spine, cover bright. Some toning to endpapers, text clean and bright. Gift inscription [see below] inside front cover and small sticker from Paul Elder Books in San Francisco on rear inside board. Binding tight. No dust jacket. Note: First published by Liveright in 1926 as stated on the copyright page. According to Gallop's Bibliography of Ezra Pound [pg.40], in 1946 New Directions took over 465 copies and 525 sets of sheets of the sixth impression from Liveright, and the sheets, with a cancel title-leaf were bound up in red or blue cloth and a new dust jacket. This is one of the bindings from the sheets, with the cancel leaf. There is a gift inscription in ink on the front inside board which is dated September 1947. In 1949, New Directions came out with a 278 page new edition in which Pound added a number of poems from magazines and early volumes." [Gallup, pg. 41].
Corners bumped, light wear to head and tail of spine, cover bright. Some toning to endpapers, text clean and bright. Gift inscription [see below] inside front cover and small sticker from Paul Elder Books in San Francisco on rear inside board. Binding tight. No dust jacket. Note: First published by Liveright in 1926 as stated on the copyright page. According to Gallop's Bibliography of Ezra Pound [pg.40], in 1946 New Directions took over 465 copies and 525 sets of sheets of the sixth impression from Liveright, and the sheets, with a cancel title-leaf were bound up in red or blue cloth and a new dust jacket. This is one of the bindings from the sheets, with the cancel leaf. There is a gift inscription in ink on the front inside board which is dated September 1947. In 1949, New Directions came out with a 278 page new edition in which Pound added a number of poems from magazines and early volumes." [Gallup, pg. 41].
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- Bookseller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 618
- Title
- PERSONAE : THE COLLECTED POEMS OF EZRA POUND INCLUDING RIPOSTES, LUSTRA, HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS, H.S. MAUBERLEY
- Author
- Pound, Ezra
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- Norfolk, Virginia
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Ezra Pound
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Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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