selected poems edited introduction t s von pound ezra (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Introduction by T. S. Eliot. Copyright page states "first published in mcmxxviii [1928] reissued in this new edition mcmxlviii [1948]." No markings. Biritsh price 12s. 6d on jacket flap. Jacket is faded with missing piece to rear and top of spine, also a closed tear to cover. In a protective cover.

Hardcover. poetry (illustrator). First British edition. Hardcover. First British edition. This the first printing of the first edition. In publisher's original green cloth hardback with gilt titles. Fading to the spine of the book and wear at the head and foot of the spine. Solid binding. No dust jacket. This is the first trade edition, following the signed limited edition.

First edition, first impression, trade issue, rare in the dust jacket. The trade issue was published on 23 November 1928; there was also a signed limited issue, published on 10 December the same year. In his introduction to this important edition of Pound's poetry, T. S. Eliot gives an extended commentary on the originality of Pound's work, his influences ("Browning and Yeats. Swinburne and William Morris", p. ix), and the ways he has been read and misread by some of his contemporaries. Gallup, Pound, A30a; Eliot, B10a. Octavo. Original green cloth, top edge green, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom quarter vellum folding box. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Head of spine sunned; jacket lightly toned, some loss to head of spine and front panel, a couple of closed tears and creases to front panel touching text, price-clipped: a very good copy in very good jacket.