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Sale 5184 - Books and Manuscripts
Sep 21, 2022
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[Literature] Pound, Ezra Selected Poems
London: Faber & Gwyer, (1928). First and limited edition, one of 100 copies signed and numbered by Pound. 8vo. xxxii, 184 pp. Edited by T.S. Eliot. Original quarter vellum over grey paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt; boards and spine lightly soiled; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; glassine wanting. Gallup A30b
A lovely copy of this scarce signed limited edition, printed on hand-made paper and featuring a lengthy introduction on Pound's work by T.S. Eliot. This edition collects all but 16 of Pound's poems from Personae (1926), and adds five early poems, under the title, Early Poems Rejected by the Author and Omitted from His Collected Edition.