Search Results: How To Read by Ezra Pound

Desmond Harmsworth. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition, First Issue (rough red cloth with silver stamped titles on the spine). From the library of poet/academic William Matchett with his bookplate on the ffep, and a few brief pencil notes in the margins. Light wear to the cloth, else a Very Good copy. GALLUP A33.

London: Desmond Harmsworth. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. A beautiful copy with one minor blemish - a 1.5" dark line on cover. DJ is bright, with some wear to edges. ; 1st issue, with rough red cloth stamped in silver. Gallup A33a. An unauthorized American reprint was published in 1971 by Haskell House Publishers Ltd. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Desmond Harmsworth, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A spectacular First Printing of this rancorous essay on literary instruction, language, criticism, and much else, including a checklist of recommended writers, beginning with Confucius and down through Flaubert and Rimbaud. Slim crown 8vo (190 x 129mm): 55,[1]pp. Publisher's first issue roughly finished red cloth stamped in silver (the later issue binding was of smoothly finished red cloth stamped in black), fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; grey dust-jacket, priced 2s., printed in red with portrait bust of the poet from a sketch by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, who worked in a roughhewn, primitive style that Pound championed. Fine, bright copy in a fine jacket with miniscule rub to base of spine panel. Gallup A33a. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly.… Read More

London: Desmond Harmsworth.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1931. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. 'First' issue. Spine stamped in white. Fine in very close to fine dust jacket. (Only the tiniest chips at crest of spine on jacket. ) (55pp. ) ( 5 1/4" X 7 3/4") From the library of John Martin publisher of Black Sparrow Press with his discreet book sticker at base of rear paste-down. Portrait of Pound by Gaudier Brzeska on cover of jacket. ; 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"); 55 pages .