Dialogues of Fontenelle; Translated by Ezra Pound.
London: The Egoist Ltd., 1917. First edition. Cloth. Small 8vo, 54pp; original yellow wrappers, bound in pale blue glazed cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. Slight soil and a very short tear to front wrapper; few minor wrinkles; very good. Item #203065
One of 500 copies in the edition, an unknown number of unsold copies being used for a reissue in 1939. This copy belonged to the poet Babette Deutsch, whose 1917 ownership signature in on the first leaf. In 1917, Deutsch graduated from Barnard and embarked on her long career as a poet, critic, editor, teacher, and translator. She was associated with the tradition of Imagism, upon which, of course, Pound himself had placed an indelible mark. A nice association copy of an elusive Pound title. Gallup A14.
Price: $400.00