Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. First edition, #27/50 numbered copies on Japanese Vellum signed by Ezra Pound (from a total of 375). 4to. Title-page and text printed in black and in red. Publisher's stiff printed wrappers; in original glassine, a few scattered small tears; book-plate of leading civil rights attorney Osmond Kessler Fraenkel on front paste-down; in original mottled patterned tan paper-board slip case. Minkoff A-38; Gallup A32

A handsome copy of Pound's Imaginary Letters, originally published in the Little Review, between 1917 and 1918.

Osmond Kessler Fraenkel (1888–1983) was born in New York, and educated at Columbia Law School. In 1935 he became co-counsel to the New York Civil Liberties Union, and in 1954 chief counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union, a position he held for more than 20 years. During his career he argued 15 cases before the United States Supreme Court, several of which dealt with First Amendment issues.