POLITE ESSAYS

First edition, first printing. American issue. Publisher's original red cloth boards with white paper label printed in black to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has several short closed tears and small chips to the folds of the lightly toned and marked spine. Not price-clipped ($2.50 to the lower front flap).

A selection of critical essays on literary subjects ranging from Dante to Joyce. Published January 1940 in an edition of 700 copies, using the sheets of the 1937 first British edition with a reprinted title page, imported, bound and jacketed by New Directions, for sale in America. (Gallup A42b).

Stock code: 28546

£100

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Author:

POUND, Ezra

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