[Rarebooks] FA: Pile of Ezra Pound, 2 firsts, and four reference books

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Ending Sunday evening, no reserve-

A Few Pounds of Ezra Pound Books- we are pleased to offer two books by
Ezra Pound, including a nice first American edition of his classic on
reading, and four books about Ezra Pound... several pounds of Pound!

"ABC of Reading" By Ezra Pound. New Haven; Yale University Press: 1934.
1st American edition. Hardcover. 5.5"x8.25", 197 pages. A corner lightly
bumped, a neeat owner's name on the endpaper, a bit of discoloration in
the gutters, spine very slightly sunned, but overall a clean, tight and
nice copy.

"Sophokles. Women of Trachis. A version by Ezra Pound" New York; New
Directions: 1957. First American edition, second state, with the complete
text on page 24. Hardcover. 5.75"x8.75", 66 pages, portrait frontis of
Pound by La. Martinelli. Light soil.

    and now, books about Ezra Pound-

Carpenter, Humphrey. "A Serious Character. The Life of Ezra Pound" Boston;
Houghton Mifflin: 1988. Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5", 1005 pages, b/w
illustrations, dj; jacket with light wear; first(blank) flyleaf removed,
and part of the paste-down along with it.

Gallup, Donald. "Ezra Pound. A Bibliography" University Press of Virginia:
1983. Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5", 548 pages, portrait. A nice copy.

Norman, Charles. "Ezra Pound" New York; Macmillan: 1960. 1st prtg.
Hardcover. 6"x8.5", 493 pages, b/w illustrations, dj; book nice, jacket
worn and torn.

Stock, Noel. "The Life of Ezra Pound" New York; Pantheon Books: 1970. 1st
American edition. Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5", 472 pages, b/w illustrations, dj;
book a bit dusty, jacket with several small chips and taped in several
spots at the base.

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  Pile of Ezra Pound, 2 firsts, and four reference books

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