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Auction archive: Lot number 245

POUND, Ezra (editor). Des Imagistes: An Anthology. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1914 [from American sheets]. 8°. English publisher's imprint stamped above that of the American publisher (Albert and Charles Boni) on title and onto half title. Original...

Auction 01.11.2006
1 Nov 2006
Estimate
£300 - £500
ca. US$573 - US$955
Price realised:
£180
ca. US$344
Auction archive: Lot number 245

POUND, Ezra (editor). Des Imagistes: An Anthology. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1914 [from American sheets]. 8°. English publisher's imprint stamped above that of the American publisher (Albert and Charles Boni) on title and onto half title. Original...

Auction 01.11.2006
1 Nov 2006
Estimate
£300 - £500
ca. US$573 - US$955
Price realised:
£180
ca. US$344
Beschreibung:

POUND, Ezra (editor). Des Imagistes: An Anthology. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1914 [from American sheets]. 8°. English publisher's imprint stamped above that of the American publisher (Albert and Charles Boni) on title and onto half title. Original green paper boards (chipped at head of spine), PLAIN BUFF DUST-JACKET, NOT CALLED FOR BY GALLUP (B7B), but certainly contemporary if not original, hand-lettered at spine. FIRST OF THE IMAGIST ANTHOLOGIES AND THE ONLY ONE TO BE EDITED BY POUND. ARGUABLY THE INAUGURATIVE MODERNIST ANTHOLOGY AND THE FIRST OF IMPORTANCE IN THE 20TH-CENTURY. A tribute to Pound's uniquely discriminating eye for new writers, containing poems by Joyce, Aldington, H.D., Ford Madox Ford, William Carlos Williams and F. S. Flint, as well as Pound himself. Imagist Anthology 1930. London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. 8°. Forewords by Ford Madox Brown and Glenn Hughes. Contributions by Aldington, H.D., Flint, Joyce, Lawrence and William Carlos Williams. Original yellow cloth, dust-jacket (dust-jacket torn). (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 245
Auction:
Datum:
1 Nov 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
1 November 2006, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

POUND, Ezra (editor). Des Imagistes: An Anthology. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1914 [from American sheets]. 8°. English publisher's imprint stamped above that of the American publisher (Albert and Charles Boni) on title and onto half title. Original green paper boards (chipped at head of spine), PLAIN BUFF DUST-JACKET, NOT CALLED FOR BY GALLUP (B7B), but certainly contemporary if not original, hand-lettered at spine. FIRST OF THE IMAGIST ANTHOLOGIES AND THE ONLY ONE TO BE EDITED BY POUND. ARGUABLY THE INAUGURATIVE MODERNIST ANTHOLOGY AND THE FIRST OF IMPORTANCE IN THE 20TH-CENTURY. A tribute to Pound's uniquely discriminating eye for new writers, containing poems by Joyce, Aldington, H.D., Ford Madox Ford, William Carlos Williams and F. S. Flint, as well as Pound himself. Imagist Anthology 1930. London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. 8°. Forewords by Ford Madox Brown and Glenn Hughes. Contributions by Aldington, H.D., Flint, Joyce, Lawrence and William Carlos Williams. Original yellow cloth, dust-jacket (dust-jacket torn). (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 245
Auction:
Datum:
1 Nov 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
1 November 2006, London, South Kensington
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