[Rarebooks] FS: Fine copy of one of Ezra Pound's best and earliest books, LUSTRA, 1916
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Tue Aug 16 15:00:15 EDT 2005
POUND, Ezra. LUSTRA. London: Elkin Mathews 1916. First Edition.
Remainder binding of beige cloth with blue lettering and the
publisher's name and address blindstamped on the rear cover. Issued
without a dustwrapper. Frontispiece photogravure of Ezra Pound from a
photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Gallup A11b. Second impression
with abridged text, nine fewer poems, and one altered title from the
first impression which consisted of 200 numbered copies and which was
never officially published. Includes many of Pound's best imagist
poems and haiku, including the much anthologized "In a Station of the
Metro." Exceptionally Fine copy. $750.00
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