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Auction archive: Lot number 355

POUND, Ezra (1885-1972). Cathay. Translations by Ezra Pound for the most part from the Chinese of Rihaku, London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. 8° (192 x 130mm). Half title. (Some very light spotting.) Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION.

Auction 16.11.2004
16 Nov 2004
Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$929 - US$1,487
Price realised:
£717
ca. US$1,333
Auction archive: Lot number 355

POUND, Ezra (1885-1972). Cathay. Translations by Ezra Pound for the most part from the Chinese of Rihaku, London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. 8° (192 x 130mm). Half title. (Some very light spotting.) Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION.

Auction 16.11.2004
16 Nov 2004
Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$929 - US$1,487
Price realised:
£717
ca. US$1,333
Beschreibung:

POUND, Ezra (1885-1972). Cathay. Translations by Ezra Pound for the most part from the Chinese of Rihaku, London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. 8° (192 x 130mm). Half title. (Some very light spotting.) Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. With 24 other books including Ezra Pound's Umbra. The Early Poems (London, 1920), Thomas Parnell's Poems ... Selected by Lennox Robinson (Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1927, ONE OF 200 COPIES), André Maurois' Conseils a un Jeune Français partant pour l' Angleterre (Abbeville, 1927, NUMBER 252 OF 257 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY), E. E. Cummings' The Enormous Room (London, 1928, dust-jacket, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION) and Ezra Pound's How to Read (London, 1931). (25)

Auction archive: Lot number 355
Auction:
Datum:
16 Nov 2004
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

POUND, Ezra (1885-1972). Cathay. Translations by Ezra Pound for the most part from the Chinese of Rihaku, London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. 8° (192 x 130mm). Half title. (Some very light spotting.) Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. With 24 other books including Ezra Pound's Umbra. The Early Poems (London, 1920), Thomas Parnell's Poems ... Selected by Lennox Robinson (Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1927, ONE OF 200 COPIES), André Maurois' Conseils a un Jeune Français partant pour l' Angleterre (Abbeville, 1927, NUMBER 252 OF 257 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY), E. E. Cummings' The Enormous Room (London, 1928, dust-jacket, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION) and Ezra Pound's How to Read (London, 1931). (25)

Auction archive: Lot number 355
Auction:
Datum:
16 Nov 2004
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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