Ezra Pound from Philip Smith, Bookseller

New Haven, CT: Yale Poetry Review, 1947. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 8vo, 36pp, stapled wrappers. This special Pound issue includes Canto LXXXIII (Gallup C1709). Marginal emphasis to 4 text pages, library stamps to front cover, some general wear.

Charlottesville, VA: The Virginia Quarterly Review, 1958. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, xx+160pp, printed wrappers. Includes Canto 99 by Ezra Pound (Gallup C1860). Ownership signature of editor Marshall Clements to contents page (no other markings), light fraying to lap wrapper edges, small closed tear at head of spine.

Toledo, OH: The Friends of the University of Toledo Libraries, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Number 22 of an edition of 1,000 numbered copies. SIGNED by Noel Stock on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. Otherwise a solid unmarked copy with just a little tearing… Read more about this item

London: Poetry and Poverty, 1952. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 40pp, printed wrappers. The second issue of Dannie Abse's striking little magazine of postwar writing. Includes an essay on Pound by Peter Viereck. Library stamp to front cover (no other markings), a bit of outer wear.

Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2002. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine (as new). 8vo, xiv+322pp, blue cloth with spine stamped in orange, printed dustwrapper. New copy, not a remainder (a few spots to cloth under jacket, appears to be a binding artefact).

London: William Cookson, 1970. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 224pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. A book-length Special Issue in Honour of Ezra Pound's Eighty-Fifth Birthday, includes verse by Pound (Gallup C1927) and tributes by literary figures. Unmarked first-printing copy, minor cover wear.

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, 1949. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 98pp, printed lap wrappers. Special Ezra Pound Issue, includes work by and about Pound (Gallup C1716 - C1717). A separate leaf of Translations from Cavalcanti is laid in (Gallup C1915). Unmarked copy (internally Fine), wear to lap wrappers and edge of Cavalcanti leaf.

New York: Vice Versa Magazine, 1942. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 80pp, stapled self-cover. Includes Canto Proceeding (72 circa) by Ezra Pound (Gallup C1625). Unmarked copy, some toning and soil to wrappers.

New York: Vice Versa Magazine, 1942. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 80pp, stapled wrappers. Includes an essay on Ezra Pound by Harold Watts that incorporates a few marginal comments from the poet (Gallup C1714). Nice unmarked copy, minor wear.

Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illnois University, 1970. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 152pp, printed wrappers. A book-length Ezra Pound Birthday Issue, includes essays and verses for Pound. Unmarked copy, some surface wear-through and toning to wrappers.

Berkeley, California: Thorp Springs Press, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 68pp, stapled wrappers. Issue dedicated to Ezra Pound the year after his death, includes some works by and about Pound. Also poetry by Snyder, Norse, Miles, et al. Two leaves of verse for Pablo Neruda by Thomas Parkison are laid in. Unmarked copy,… Read more about this item

Logan, UT: The Rocky Mountain Press, 1946. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 56pp,stapled wrappers. Includes A New Pound Canto (Canto LXXVII; Gallup C1706). Unmarked copy, light toning and soil.

Laurinburg, NC: St. Andrews Presbyterian College, 1970. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 68pp, stapled wrappers. Issue includes a letter by Ezra Pound, and much of the issue is devoted to essays on Pound. Unmarked copy, a few interior leaves are bumped at one corner.

London: Peter Russell, 1953. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 72pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes a brief poem by Ezra Pound and work from other prominent contributors. Minor ink notations to front cover (else unmarked), some tattering to acidic wrappers at spine.

Rotterdam: Cold Turkey Press, 1975. 2nd edition. Soft cover. Very Good/Good. VG+ in Good only plastic wrapper. 4to, 108pp, printed wrappers. Stated Second Edition, Revised and Augmented, December 1975. A bootleg collection of highlights from Pound's controversial wartime broadcasts. (See Gallup A96.) Unmarked copy, light reading wear, plastic outer jacket has small area of loss and tearing.

Chicago: Pascal Covici, Publisher, 1927. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. (Gallup C693-694.) The second issue (of 4) of this scarce little magazine edited by Ezra Pound. Includes a rare chapter from Joe Goulds Oral History (later immortalized by Joseph Mitchell). Unmarked copy, some wear to wrappers and light… Read more about this item

London: William Cookson, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 70pp, printed wrappers. A Special Issue in Honour of Ezra Pound's Eightieth Birthday, includes verse by Pound, tributes by literary figures (including an essay by Robert Duncan, Bertholf C174), and an article on Ezra Pound on Banking by Hugh Kenner. First printing, a… Read more about this item

New York: SOME, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 84 pp, stapled wrappers. Includes a section of a poem by Ezra Pound deleted from his "Canzoni" (1911), plus a lengthy pre-publication excerpt from C. David Heymann's biography of Pound, including an account of his meeting with Allen Ginsberg. Nice copy, minor signs… Read more about this item