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[POUND, Ezra].

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by E.P.


The Ovid Press, [London], 23 April 1920. First edition, second state with the corrected page numbers on contents page and, on p.12, line 16, with inverted 'p' for a 'd' in "age-old". Limited to 200 numbered copies on hand-made paper of which this is number 170 of the 165 unsigned copies. Royal 8vo. Printed by John Rodker and third book of the Ovid Press, woodcut initials and colophon by Edward Wadsworth. Original tan cloth-backed brown boards, printed label on upper cover, lightly bumped at corners and tail of spine, small scraped area to right corner of upper board, front pastedown with booklabel of Wiston Old Rectory. An entirely unopened and fine copy.

Gallup A19; Connolly Modern Movement, 35.

Price: £ 4500
US Dollar Price: $ 6770
Stock Number: 39815

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Image of [POUND, Ezra]. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by E.P.