Imaginary Letters

by Ezra Pound 

First, limited edition.  Paris:  The Black Sun Press, 1930  

Softback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition.

• Cream wraps are mostly clean, with black and red text.  Corners are sharp. 
• Glassine overlay shows some toning, a tiny chip at spine.
• Spine shows some exposure, with firm ends.
• Binding feels unread. 
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have deckle fore edges, unopened edges at head. 
• Slipcase, tan boards, shows some pencil marks, edgewear.
• PS2025.0904

56 pages. 6 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches

A Very Good+ copy of this first edition in book form by poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972).  Publisher's cream wraps with the original glassine overlay and board slipcase.  Interior features titles in red ink, head edges are uncut.

Ezra Pound's Imaginary Letters were originally published between 1917 and 1918 in The Little Review, the American avant-garde literary magazine founded and edited by Margaret C. Anderson.  The Black Sun Press was an English-language publishing house based in Paris.  Founded in 1927 by American expatriates Harry and Caresse Crosby, it was responsible for the publication of early works by seminal literary figures such as Joyce, Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, and Hemingway.  The books, all handset, were typographically unique.  The Black Sun Press closed in 1970, following the death of Caresse Crosby.

First Edition, number 166 of 300 numbered copies printed on Navarre paper, from a limited edition of 375 copies.  

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