Box 5
Contains 13 Results:
“If This Be Treason......” publication of selected Pound radio broadcasts, 1948
(Sienna, Italy): (Printed for Olga Rudge by Tip Nuova), (1948). Octavo; green wrappers, printed in black. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies. This copy is not numbered. Gallup notes: “probably 300 copies printed…” (most copies left unnumbered). Gallup A59. A series of Pound’s Rome radio broadcasts, including “James Joyce to his memory,” “e.e. cummings/examines,” with introductory remarks to Pound’s reading of Canto 45 “printed from the original rough drafts.”
Quarterly Review of Literature, Ezra Pound Issue journal, Volume V, Number 2, 1949
Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. p. 105-35; 201. First edition. Gallup C1716-1717. The Ezra Pound Issue, printing Indiscretion, with minor corrections by the author, and Envoi. Also includes essays on Pound by Wyndham Lewis and Marianne Moore, among others. With an introductory note by D.D. Paige.
Ezra Pound at Seventy commemorative booklet, 1956
(Norfolk, Connecticut): (New Directions), [1956]. First edition. Contains the first appearance of “T.S. Eliot,” Eliot’s brief essay in praise of Ezra Pound [Gallup/Eliot B75]. Also contains original contributions by Ernest Hemingway, W.H. Auden, Marianne Moore, e.e. cummings, Archibald MacLeish et al. “To mark Ezra Pound’s seventieth year New Directions wrote to a number of persons and here publishes the statements they sent about him…distributed gratis to publicize Ezra Pound’s books.”
A Lume Spento, republished poetry selections in booklet, 1958
Milano: All’Insegna del Pesce D’Oro, (1958). 48 mo.; stiff grey wrappers; in a green dust-jacket, printed in black; 65 pages; illustrated, including Pound’s manuscripts in holograph facsimile. First edition; 2000 copies, of which this is no. 1645. Gallup D71. Bilingual text in English and Italian. Contains the first appearance of Pound’s “Statement of Being” and “For Italico Brass.”
The Yale Literary Magazine, Special Issue: Ezra Pound – A New Montage, Volume 126, Number 5, 1958
Tall octavo.; printed wrappers. First edition. Gallup C1865. Includes “Special Issue: Ezra Pound – A New Montage,” printing Pound’s “Canto C,” with articles about Pound by B. Deutsch, J. Ciardi, D. Gallup, Edith Sitwell et al; also reproduces portraits of Ezra Pound.
The University of Texas "Ezra Pound: An Exhibition held in March 1967" program and related items, 1967
“Yale University Library Announces the Establishment of the Center for the Study of Ezra Pound and His Contemporaries…” announcement, 1973
(New Haven): Yale University Library, (1973). Duodecimo; cream-colored sheet, printed in red and black. Original announcement, printing (in part) the text of a letter from Pound to the Provost of Yale University, 4 April 1966, relating to the Pound Center. 750 copies printed, for “gratis distribution.” Gallup E2zd
L’Ideogramma Cinese come Mezzo di Poesia: Una Ars Poetica booklet, 'Introduzione e note di Ezra Pound' (Translated by Mary de Rachewiltz) and related items, 1960
Duodecimo; buff wrappers, printed in red and black. Second Italian edition; 2000 copies, of which this is no. 14. See Gallup D77. Loosely inserted is Mary De Rachewiltz’s calling card, inscribed to Pound bibliographer Donald Gallup: for Donald (if he has room for second editions) / Affectionately,/ Mary. Rear flap prints a six-line note on the series by Pound, dated 1960. Note not included in the first edition.
An Autobiographical Outline booklet by Ezra Pound, 1980
Nadja (New York, 1980). Wide octavo; grey paper wrappers printed in black; plain lavender inner wrappers; sewn; publisher’s advertisement laid in. First separate edition; 226 copies, of which 200 numbered copies are for sale, and 26 are lettered and reserved by Nadja. This is no. 92. Gallup A103. This biographical sketch, dedicated to Louis Untermeyer, was composed by Pound in 1930 during a stay in Rapallo. The text is reprinted from the Paris Review for their summer/fall 1962 issue.
The Coward Surrealists Castigated booklet by Ezra Pound, 1981
(London): Printed by an amateur [Eric Stevens], 1981. Tall octavo.; yellow wrappers, printed in black.First separate edition; less than 100 [i.e. ca. 97] copies. Gallup E2zi. Reprinted from Contemporary Poetry and Prose for Nov. 1936 – C1375.
The Master of Those Who Know: Ezra Pound book by James Laughlin, 1986
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1986). Narrow octavo; stiff buff wrappers, printed in red and black. First edition.
Thomas Y. Crowell Company press release for Ezra Pound, undated, approximately 1957
Octavo; mimeograph. Statement regarding the fact that “anything concerned with Ezra Pound arouses controversy.” Number of copies unknown.
Love Poems of Ancient Egypt translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock, 1962
(New York): New Directions, (1962). Octavo.; stiff white wrappers; in a white dust-jacket printed in black and lavender. First edition; 5049 copies. Gallup A80.