How to Read [First Issue]
by POUND, Ezra (1885-1972)
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
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. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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- Bookseller
- Fine Editions Ltd (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BB2444
- Title
- How to Read [First Issue]
- Author
- POUND, Ezra (1885-1972)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Desmond Harmsworth
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1931
- Bookseller catalogs
- HAND-PRESS PERIOD;
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Fine Editions Ltd
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