[Rarebooks] FS: Some Saturnalian sweeteners.

[Norman Kane]

Take a look at these when you’ve finished wrapping gifts. And season’s greetings to all.  nk

[POUND, STEVENS ET AL.]   THE HARKNESS HOOT, A YALE UNDERGRADUATE REVIEW. 3 ISSUES.
Issues of November, 1933, Feb., 1934 & April, 1934. Original wrappers, good/very good copies of a rather scarce and important undergraduate magazine described by Hoffman in "The Little Magazine" as "a lively member of a group of university magazines which may be said to have belonged to the little magazine family."  Contains the first printings of Pound's "Abject and Utter Farce" [of modern cultural education], his "On the Divisions in Jewry" &, most importantly, "Canto XXXVI." Also includes "Fascism in the U.S." by Walt Rostow, 2 poems by Wallace Stevens, several pieces by Jas. Laughlin, articles such as "Why We Were On The Picket Line", &c.  The Pound contributions are Gallup C982, 1011 & 1048. ("Canto XXXVI" includes Pound's revised English version of Cavalcanti's canzone "Donna mi prega.") The Stevens poems are Edelstein C86. Scarce, provocative, and a glimpse into the concerns of Ivy League students in the turbulent mid-Thirties.  $150.00

THE SYMPOSIUM, A CRITICAL REVIEW.  4 ISSUES: April, 1930; Oct., 1930; Jan., 1931; July, 1931. Orig, wraps, 1 very good, 2 good, 1 worn. (In the pages of The Symposium criticism becomes a major art  ... Some of the most
important criticism is here published for the first time” – Hoffman. “The Little Magazine.”  Ortega y Gasset,
Bonamy Dobree, J. Middleton Murry, Louis Zukovsky, Edwin Berry Burgum, et al.)  $20.00

MITCHELL,  S. WEIR.  FAT AND BLOOD: AND HOW TO MAKE THEM. SECOND EDITION, REVISED.
Phila., 1879.  Original cloth, spine faded, lightly rubbed, Pre-Raphaelite bookplate of Florence Kirkley.  (Garrrison/Morton 4554: "Includes full account  of Weir Mitchell's rest cure for nervous disorders.")   $95.00

FURIOSO, A MAGAZINE OF POETRY.  3 ISSUES:  Volume 1, Nos. 2,3 & 4, 1940-41.  Orig. wraps, very good. 
Extraordinary contents: Ezra Pound (“5 Poems” – Gallup 1528), Eberhart, , Cummings, Williams, Dylan Thomas,
Taggard, Richards, MacLeish, Auden, Marianne Moore, Stevens (“4 Poems – Edelstein C136), Durrell et al.
“Furioso is primarily a meeting place for the major figures of the poetic renaissance of the Forties” –Hoffman, “The Little Magazine.”)  40.00

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