Polite Essays by Pound, Ezra

Books for Libraries Press, 1966. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 207 pages. 1966 reprint of 1937 book. Ex-university library book, light wear and discoloring; a good sound binding. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literary Criticism & Essays; Inventory No: 210886. .

New Directions. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-library copy. Bookplate from private collector on front endpaper. Mild wear to boards. Binding sound; no marks to text.

Books for Libraries Press, 1966. Hardcover . Used Good/Missing. This is a clean and tight ex-Library copy, with the following elements present: sticker on spine, sticker on back cover, discard stamps, library marks on inside or sides, circulation sleeve on rear endpaper. Spine and binding are intact. Pages are clean with minor edge or corner wear. Still in readable condition. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1940. First American Printing. Hardcover. Good. Small 8vo, publisher's red cloth with spine label, good plus with light general wear, heavy tanning or offsetting to gutters (inner hinges), text clean. One of 700 copies published from the English sheets; see Gallup A42b. Essays on Williams, Joyce, Eliot, the Active Anthology, "How to Read," Dante and much else.

Norfolk, Conn: New Directions, 1971. First American edition. Hardcover. Small rubbed scuff to spine head, very mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gentle rubbing to corners, very light soiling to boards, ink ownership signature to front free endpaper, Huxley quote and ownership signature pasted to front pastedown, faint soiling to front free endpaper and rear free endpaper, bright pages in tight binding, else Very Good(+). No dust jacket.. Small red octavo, three blank front endpapers, 207 pages, 20 cm. Literature, Essays. || Contents: Harold Monro.--Mr. Housman at Little Bethel.--Hell.--'We have had no battles.'--The prose tradition in verse.--Dr. Williams' position.--James Joyce et Pécuchet.--Mr. Elliot's solid merit.--'Abject and utter farce.'--The teachers's mission.--A letter from Dr. Rouse to E.P.--Retrospect: Interlude.--Prefatio aut cimicium tunulus.--'Active anthology.' How to read.--Civilization.--Note on Dante.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1937. First edition hard cover, no jacket, in good condition for its age. General shelf and handling wear, including fading to boards, with wear to edges and (bumped) corners. Light blemishes noted. Pageblock is tanned and foxed. Within, gutter break at pages 80-81, however, all pages are securely bound, and content is clear and bright. CN. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used.

Norfolk: New Directions, (1940). First American edition. 8vo., red cloth with printed white paper spine label, pp. vii, 207. "700 sets of sheets with reprinted title-leaf and its conjugate were imported by New Directions and specially bound and jacketed for sale in the United States". Foxing to page edges, endpapers and gutters of first several pages, name/date on endpaper, original small foil price sticker on rear endpaper [$2.50], several small stains in gutters of upper board, spine label darkened, otherwise about very good. No dust jacket. A presentable copy of a simply designed and handsome book. Gallup A42b..

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Limited to 700 copies, this is one of Pound's most influential books, with important essays on Joyce, Eliot, Harold Monro of the Poetry Bookshop, and on ""How to Read"" and a critical study of Dante. A superb copy, tight and unmarked, and protected by a Mylar plastic jacket.

1 . Hardbound. Fine. 1st ed. L.(Faber) 1937. Two faint library stamps else a fine copy.

London: Faber and Faber, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition [preceedes the 1940 New Directions publication]. vii, 207 pages. Red cloth with spine titles in gilt. Octavo. Spine titles bright, upper corners have a bit of chafing, textblock square and tight. Nice clean cover. Interior clean and bright. A very nice copy. No dust jacket. Chapters include: Harold Monro; The Prose Tradition in Verse; James Joyce et Pecuchet; Mr. Eliot's Solid Merit; "Abject and Utter Farce"; How to Read; Civilization; Note on Dante, etc.