Imaginary letters / by Ezra Pound.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Contributor:

Black Sun Press.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount, 1852-1930 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 56 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

[Limited edition].

Place of Publication:

Paris : The Black Sun Press, Rue Cardinale, MCMXXX [1930]

Notes:

With half-title.

Title page printed in red and black.

In the text the titles for Letters I-V and for the final essay are printed in red, the rest in black.

"This first edition of Imaginary Letters by Ezra Pound printed at the Black Sun Press, Paris (Maître-Imprimeur Lescaret) under the supervision of and for Caresse Crosby, September 1930, is strictly limited to 50 copies on Japanese vellum numbered 1 to 50 and signed by the author together with 300 copies on Navarre paper numbered 51 to 350, and 25 copies hors-commerce. This edition to be sold at the bookshop of Harry F. Marks 21 West 47 Street New York City and at the Black Sun Press, Paris."

Cream paper wrapper lettered in red and black.

Housed in slipcase.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 332.

Culture Class Collection copy has "Esher" bookplate.

Cited in:

A preliminary checklist of the writings of Ezra Pound / compiled by John Edwards, no. 38

OCLC:

1350016