Active Anthology by Ezra Pound (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (Ref.GG6) Orange cloth boards with blue spine titles. Slightly colour-faded at spine. Slight fading to titles and one or two small marks. Top edge is blue but greyed. Yellowed foredge. Slight foxing to top right corner ffep. Ex-uni library label to front paste-down. Contents otherwise good and generally unmarked. Slightly spine-cocked. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp 255. Pound's anthology of emerging modernist poets includes poems by Cummings, Basil Bunting (many) Marianne Moore, D. G. Bridson, Zukovsky, Louis Aragon, Carlos Williams, Stein, Eliot, Pound himself (including Cantos) and Hemingway. Ezra Pound pp 255 Original publisher's red cloth lettered dark blue at spine. Sp v slightly darkened and very slightly tanned, slight handling wear, nneat crossed out name on fep, slight abrasion from rubbed out name o/w about VG sound example with clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. - Ex Library w/ resultant stamps including one to text block top edge - Covers moderately worn and marked w/ spine ends a little bumped - "I" and "A" written in pen to spine near tail - Edges of text block tanned - Endpapers worn and toned w/ pen marks to top edge of front pastedown - Page margins and content moderately toned - Book ow/ solid and tight - 255 pages. 8vo.

255pp. Hardcover. Very good first edition.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Front board is water stained to bottom, but this has not affected the contents.

1st edition / 1st printing hardback in original cloth Nice copy small octavo 255pp., Neat ownership signature o/w nice crisp, tight, square copy.

[Poetry Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with white titles to spine. Gently toned, otherwise a clean copy internally. Lightly rubbed and bumped to boards, with heavy rubbing and toning to spine. Lower joint split; upper starting. Good. A scarce collection. Pound introduces a wide selection of contemporary American poetry which he considered relatively unknown in England at the time.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 255 p. Size: 19 cm.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 255 pp. Tightly bound. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Light, minor ding to tip of lower back corner. This copy first published in October 1933 by Faber and Faber. The dust jacket is yellow with red and black type. The dust jacket is only 'good" because the yellow on the spine is toned; tanned / browned as is common when you find this book with a dust jacket. There is wear to the jacket along the edges and extremities. Dust jacket is not price clipped. Dark burnt red linen cloth covered boards stamped in dark blue type face.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Introduction by Pound. Near Fine in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped (7s. 6d. net), toned at the spine, multiple chips and tears at the edges. Red cloth with blue ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, clean internally. Pound's anthology meant to familiarize the British readership with poets he found significant, namely William Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, Louis Zukofsky, Louis Aragon, E.E. Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, Marianne Moore, George Oppen, D.G. Bridson, T.S. Eliot, and of course, Pound himself.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Impression. A Fine copy in dark burnt red linen cloth covered boards stamped in dark blue, in a Very Good yellow dustwrapper printed in black and red, not price-clipped, with toned spine, moderate wear to points, and small chip to heel of spine. 255pp. This curious partisan selection, with its eccentric Preface, has real historical interest, including work by Williams, Bunting, Zukofsky, Cummings, Hemingway, Moore, Oppen, and Eliot among others. This book has always been scarce, due to its small initial limitation (about 1500 copies), and the fact that the remaining 750 copies were destroyed during the bombing in WWII. Q10487.