Selected Poems. Edited with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot.

POUND, Ezra.

Published by London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928

About this Item

First edition, first impression, trade issue, rare in the dust jacket. The trade issue was published on 23 November 1928; there was also a signed limited issue, published on 10 December the same year. In his introduction to this important edition of Pound's poetry, T. S. Eliot gives an extended commentary on the originality of Pound's work, his influences ("Browning and Yeats. Swinburne and William Morris", p. ix), and the ways he has been read and misread by some of his contemporaries. Gallup, Pound, A30a; Eliot, B10a. Octavo. Original green cloth, top edge green, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom quarter vellum folding box. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Head of spine sunned; jacket lightly toned, some loss to head of spine and front panel, a couple of closed tears and creases to front panel touching text, price-clipped: a very good copy in very good jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poems. Edited with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot.
• Publisher: London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928
• Edition: 1st Edition