SELECTED POEMS (First trade edition)

Ezra Pound (Edited with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot)

Edité par Faber & Gwyer, 3, Queen Square, London, WC1, 1928

A propos de cet article

First impression of the first trade edition, published by Faber & Gwyer (before the imprint became Faber & Faber). Preceded only by a signed and numbered edition of only 100 copies. Edited with a 19pp Introduction by T. S. Eliot. This selection includes "Personae of Ezra Pound", "Ripostes", "Lustra", "Cathay", "H. S. Mauberley", and other early poems rejected by the author and omited from his collected edition. ***Very good in light-green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are quite clean - just a light ring-mark to the front board and some uneven fading. The spine is quite browned and the titles have faded. No tears to the cloth, and no serious bumps or creases. Corners very slightly creased. Top edge of the page block stained black by the publisher. Fore-edge of the page block rough-cut. Internally near fine with a neat ownership name 'E. Hutchinson' and date 'Sept. 1932' to the top of the front free endpaper. Clean pages with no annotations. No chips, tears or creases. No foxing. Spine tight. No dustwrapper. ***195mm x135mm. 184 pages. ***'Mr. Ezra Pound recently made for publication in New York a volume of "collected poems" under the title of "Personae". I made a few suggestions for omissions and inclusions in a similar collection to be published in London; and out of discussions of such matters with Pound arose the spectre of an introduction by myself. The poems which I wished to include, from among those which the author had omitted, are found together at the back of the book. The order followed throughout the book is, with the exception mentioned, that of original publication of the scattered volumes from which the poems are drawn.' (Quote taken from T. S. Eliot's Introduction) ***First impression of the true first trade edition of "Selected Poems" by the American Modernist poet Ezra Pound. This early publication by Faber & Gwyer is scarce. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: SELECTED POEMS (First trade edition)
• Éditeur: Faber & Gwyer, 3, Queen Square, London, WC1
• Date de parution: 1928
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• Impression: First Impression
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature
  • First Editions