Ezra. Imaginary Letters.

by POUND

£900 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

POUND, Ezra. Imaginary Letters. Paris: The Black Sun Press . 1930. 8vo. Original printed wrapper with fold-over flaps enclosed in a delicate glassine dust jacket; red title lettering to front wrapper and publishers device in red and black on back; edges untrimmed and some pages unopened; pp. 56; lacking paper covered beige slicase but condition fine. First edition in book form, number 63 of 300 numbered copies printed on Navarre paper, from a limited edition of 375 copies. Ezra Pound’s Imaginary Letters was originally published between 1917 and 1918 in the Little Review , the American avant-garde literary magazine founded and edited by Margaret C. Anderson , for whom Pound acted as foreign editor in London. The Black Sun Press was an iconic English-language publishing house based in Paris founded by American expatriates Harry Crosby and his wife Caresse Crosby in 1927. Minkoff A-38 SKU: 2121157

• Binding: Hardcover

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