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POUND, Ezra. Diptych Rome-London. Homage to Sextus Propertius & Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. London: Officina Bodoni for Faber and Faber Limited, 1958. 2° (286 x 200mm). Title and text printed in red and black. Printer's device in red on the colophon. Original boards, upper board with gilt 'EP' monogram, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original cloth-edged slipcase with letterpress label (spine slightly darkened, light marking on slipcase). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, THIS NO. 139 OF 50 FOR GREAT BRITAIN, SIGNED BY POUND. Gallup Pound (1983) A75b; Mardersteig Bodoni 116.
POUND, E. (translator) and Guido CAVALCANTI (c.1250-1300). Cavalcanti Poems. London: Officina Bodoni for Faber and Faber, '1966' [but 1967]. 2° (286 x 189mm). Title printed in red and black, printer's device in red on the colophon. Original vellum-backed boards, upper board with gilt 'EP' monogram, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, card slipcase. FIRST EDITION THUS, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, THIS NO.118 OF 50 FOR GREAT BRITAIN, SIGNED BY POUND. Cavalcanti Poems contains the sonnets, madrigal and ballate published in Sonnets and Ballate (1912), two versions of the canzone 'Donna mi prega', together with the introduction to the 1912 edition, and 'Mediaevalism' and 'The Other Dimension' (both first published in Make it New). Gallup Pound (1983) A86b (noting that the Faber and Faber issue was published in January 1967); Mardersteig Bodoni 144. (2)
POUND, E. (translator) and Guido CAVALCANTI (c.1250-1300). Cavalcanti Poems. London: Officina Bodoni for Faber and Faber, '1966' [but 1967]. 2° (286 x 189mm). Title printed in red and black, printer's device in red on the colophon. Original vellum-backed boards, upper board with gilt 'EP' monogram, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, card slipcase. FIRST EDITION THUS, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, THIS NO.118 OF 50 FOR GREAT BRITAIN, SIGNED BY POUND. Cavalcanti Poems contains the sonnets, madrigal and ballate published in Sonnets and Ballate (1912), two versions of the canzone 'Donna mi prega', together with the introduction to the 1912 edition, and 'Mediaevalism' and 'The Other Dimension' (both first published in Make it New). Gallup Pound (1983) A86b (noting that the Faber and Faber issue was published in January 1967); Mardersteig Bodoni 144. (2)
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