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POUND, EZRA. Lustra. [London: Elkin Mathews 1916]. 8vo, original tan cloth, lettered in dark blue, unopened, glassine jacket (defective) and cardboard box (?original). FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION (unabridged text), no. 175 of 200 copies numbered by Pound, PRESENTATION COPY, boldly inscribed by the poet on front free endpaper in dark blue ink (resembling the binding lettering): "Lord Carlow's copy. Ezra Pound, 25 Oct. anno XVI," frontispiece portrait of Pound from a photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Lord Carlow was the publisher of the Corvinus Press in London. Gallup Alla; Connolly, The Modern Movement 35a. Fine.
Provenance: James Gilvarry (sale, Christie's New York, 7 February 1986, lot 208).
Provenance: James Gilvarry (sale, Christie's New York, 7 February 1986, lot 208).