99 / 146
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POUND, EZRA.
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.
Initials after designs by theVorticist
artist Edward Wadsworth. Tall 8vo, original tan linen-backed brown boards, printed paper
cover label, uncut and unopened; pale offsetting on title. Fine.
London:The Ovid Press, 1920
[1,500/2,500]
A SUPERB COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION
,
number 194 of 165 unsigned copies from a stated total
edition of 200. Although the colophon states that 200 copies were issued, both Gallup and Ransom
note that fewer copies were issued and that a few out-of-series copies and sets of unbound sheets are
known to exist. Gallup A19; Ransom 373.
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POUND, EZRA.
Lustra.
Author photogravure portrait frontispiece by Alvin
Langdon Coburn. 8vo, original tan boards lettered in blue, spine lightly rubbed; contents
with faint intermittent spotting, chiefly to front and end matter.
LIMITED EDITION
,
NUMBER
176
OF
200
COPIES
with Pound’s orange chop-stamp on title. Unusually well-preserved copy.
[London]: privately printed [by Elkin Mathews], [1916]
[700/1,000]
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POUND, EZRA.
Provença.
12mo, original tan printed boards, front
joint cracked and separated from textblock,
spine cracked and chipped; dust jacket, torn
with loss,brittle,surviving in four fragments with
spine panel perished;boxed.
Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., (1910)
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION
in a defective first issue dust
jacket with “$1.00 net; postage, 8 cents” on
rear panel.With a dyspeptic 4-line
INSCRIPTION BY POUND
on the front board:“Publisher responsi-
ble for the colour of this cover. Let justice run her course. EP.”Gallup A6.
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