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Pound, Ezra Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. London: The Ovid Press, 1920 8vo (250 x 155 mm). Initials after designs by Edward Wadsworth; one or two stray spots. Original tan linen-backed brown cloth-covered boards, paper label to upper cover; cloth neatly split running length of rear joint, label foxed, minor soiling and fraying. First edition—one of 200 copies. This 28 of only 20 copies (numbered 16-35) signed by Pound. For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain “the sublime” In the old sense. Wrong from the start— This is only the third example of one of the 20 signed copies to appear at auction since 1975, with the last copy appearing nearly two decades ago. From a stated total edition of 200, but both Gallup and Ransom note that fewer copies were in fact issued, with a few out-of-series copies and sets of unbound sheets known to exist. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley—completed after his departure from Britain—marks a turning point in Pound's poetry. Of this, T.S. Eliot wrote: "What is curious is his complete and isolated superiority as a master of verse form. No one living has practised the art of verse with such austerity and devotion; and no one living has practised it with more success... A man who devises new rhythms is a man who extends and refines our sensibility; and that is not merely a matter of ‘technique’." Rare. REFERENCES Connolly, The Modern Movement 35b; Gallup, Pound (1983) A19

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pound, ezra | one of only 20 signed copies

A limited <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> draft of XVI Cantos of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ezra+Pound&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ezra Pound</a> for the beginning of a <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poem</a> of some length, with two prospectuses for Cantos XVI-XXVII.<ul><li>Ezra Pound (American).</li><li>Engravings by Henry Strater (American).</li><li>Paris and London:&nbsp;Three Mountains Press; John Rooker,&nbsp;1925; 1927.&nbsp;</li><li>Tall Quarto.</li><li>65, [2] pages, with duplicates of the first, second, and third cantos (p. 5-12) and a partial duplicate of the eighth and sixth cantos (p. 27-28, 21-22), plus 2 prospectuses of [4] pages each.</li><li>Limited First Edition: #65/70.</li><li>Signatures of the&nbsp;Draft of XVI. Cantos&nbsp;and the prospectus are printed on Roma paper with deckled edges; pages of the&nbsp;Draft&nbsp;are watermarked "Ezra Pound" followed by the colophon for the Three Mountains Press.</li><li>Each canto is accompanied by an engraved initial, with titles and initial caps appearing in vibrant red ink.</li><li>Prospectuses contain the first pages of the twenty first and twenty fifth cantos as specimens, each with engraved initials. </li><li>Unbound, housed in a paper wrap.</li></ul>

A Draft Of XVI. Cantos Of Ezra Pound, with Two Prospectuses For Cantos XVI-XXVII

First-edition copy of&nbsp;Pound's classic text, where he presented himself in a variety of characters.<ul><li>Ezra Pound (American).</li><li>One of 1,000 copies printed, 500 of which were used for the combined edition with EXULTATIONS.&nbsp;</li><li>London:&nbsp;Elkin Mathews,&nbsp;1909.</li><li>59, [1] pp. 1 vols.</li><li>8vo.</li><li>Publisher's drab paper boards lettered in gold on front cover and spine.</li></ul>

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Signed limited edition of Pound's Cathay with seven color woodcuts by Francesco Clemente.<ul><li>Ezra Pound (French).</li><li>Woodcuts by Francesco Clemente (Italian).</li><li>Designed by Dan Carr (American).</li><li>[New York]: The Limited Editions Club,&nbsp;[1993].</li><li>Large octavo.</li><li>Printed by Arthur Larson at Horton Tank Graphics on handmade Japanese Ogawashi paper.</li><li>Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Clemente.&nbsp;</li><li>Original pale blue Japanese linen, original slipcase.</li></ul> "This volume is all the more remarkable for the fact that Pound knew no Chinese. Yet these translations of eighteen medieval poems, mainly by Li Po (A.D. 70I-762), are acknowledged masterpieces. Pound worked from notes by Ernest Fenollosa, a great American scholar of Oriental literature and art. These notes Pound turned to poetry, imbued with the scent and flavor of their Chinese originals. Italian‑born artist Francesco Clemente, as well, feels the magnetic pull of the East. There have been scores of books and articles by and about Clemente; and exhibitions of his art all over the world, including a large 1990 show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As the organizer of the Philadelphia exhibit wrote, Clemente’s art 'resonates between intensities of the cerebral and the sensual.' Especially here, in these seven exquisite color woodcuts" (Publisher).

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