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POUND, EZRA - Cantos [and others]
Estimate:
$200 - $400
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$200
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174: Rare Books
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POUND, EZRA
Cantos [and others]

1. A Draft of XXX Cantos. Faber & Faber 1933, first UK edition. 153p, sprinkle of foxing on endpapers, owner's name, and some light [pencil notations. Original black cloth, gilt titles, an early? original DJ slightly shorter than the book.
2. The Fifth Decade of Cantos. Faber & Faber 1937, first UK edition. 53p, a sprinkle of foxing on endpapers, owner's name, and some light pencil notations. Original black cloth, gilt titles, roll to spine, DJ is torn along back hinge fold and chipped.
3. A Draft of Cantos XXXI-XLI. Faber & Faber 1935. First UK edition. Faded owner's name, and some light pencil notations. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, faint fading to cloth at top edge, DJ small losses at spine ends and edges toned.
4. Cantos LII-LXXI. Faber & Faber 1940. 186p, sprinkle of foxing, original black cloth, gilt titles, DJ discoloured, chips spine ends. Pencil notations on back endpaper and loosely enclosed 2p of notes.
5. Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII. Faber & Faber 1970, first UK edition. Black cloth with gilt titles, DJ, fine copy.
6. The Pisan Cantos. Faber & Faber 1949, first UK edition. Black cloth gilt titles, sprinkle of foxing on endpapers DJ, spine with losses chips & discoloured.
Condition varies, most have the name of Willie Hiener on front end paper.
7. Ezra Pound - Selected Poems. Faber & Faber 1948, reprint. Dark green cloth, spine, faded light wear. Name erased from endpaper.
8. ABC of Reading. George Routledge 1934, first edition. 1187mm, original red cloth worn at edges and faded.7p, sprinkle of foxing throughout.
9. Personae. Collected shorter poems. Faber & Faber 1952, first edition. 287p, endpapers browned, original rose-coloured cloth, spine faded & light wear.
10. Donald Gallup - Ezra Pound, A Bibliography. University Press of Virginia 1983. 548p, 240mm, original black cloth with gilt. Near fine.
Provenance: Library of Richard Nunns.