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West Norwood, London: The Complete Press, n.d. (1917). First edition.
Sm 4to. 27pp. Tissue guarded frontis. Inscribed by Page to a fellow diplomat posted to the U.S. embassy at Bangkok. A very good copy, slightly cocked with a little weakness to front binding, heavy offsetting to front and rear end papers, slightly faded spine and rubbing to spine tips.
Walter Hines Page (August 15, 1855 - December 21, 1918) was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. In March 1913, Page was appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom by President Woodrow Wilson, whom Page had befriended in 1882 when Wilson was a young lawyer starting out in Atlanta. Page was one of the key figures involved in bringing the United States into World War I on the Allied side. As ambassador to Britain, he defended British policies to Wilson and helped to shape a pro-Allied slant in the President and in the United States as a whole. One month after Page sent a message to Wilson, the U.S. Congress declared war on Germany. For… Read More

First US Edition.
Signed by Penrose, co-winner of Nobel Prize for Physics in 2020, on the title page.
Spine tip a little pushed, one corner with a minimal bump else fine in very nearly fine dust wrapper, top spine slightly creased.

Inscribed and dated by Posner, a federal judge, leading figure in the field of law and economics and the most-cited legal scholar of the 20th century.
Slight wrinkle to top spine. Near fine in a like dust wrapper with corresponding wrinkle to top spine.

London: The Casanova Society, 1926. Limited Edition 1236/1500 copies on deckle-edge laid watermark paper, translated and with a long postscript by Ezra Pound. GALLUP A22b.A very good copy, top corners bumped, edge worn spine a little faded in a very good dust wrapper showing only a little evidence of the soling that seems to be endemic to this title, spine a little tanned and mottled with some small edge chips.

Milan: John Scheiwiller, 1932. First Edition.
An enormously important poetry anthology, one of only 250 copies, this is #44. Anthology features many of the key Modernist writers of the period, including James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, W.B. Yeats, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, and many others, including Pound himself. Pound has also contributed an introduction and occasional commentary. 142 pages, in original green wrappers folded over stiff white blanks. A very good copy; spine toned and a little chipped at the ends, light toning to edges, two corners a bit rubbed, clearly a read copy with some weakness.
OCLC lists only 6 copies, all in U.S. libraries. Gallup B28. A rare book that does not often come on the market.

London: Chatto and Windus 1930. First Edition. 3,000 copies printed. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-256. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-301. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 782. Bleiler (1978), p. 160. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Riley A21. A mixed collection of twenty-six stories including allegorical fantasies and the best of Powys's more conventional supernatural fictions. A superior, bright and fresh copy, fine in a slightly dust soiled dust wrapper.