Antheil and The Treatise on Harmony (1924)
A25
Editions
a. First edition, ordinary copies
ANTHEIL | AND | THE TREATISE ON HARMONY | BY | EZRA POUND | PARIS | THREE MOUNTAINS PRESS | 29, QUAI D’ANJOU, 29|—| 1924 4 leaves, 106 pp., 1 leaf, 2 blank leaves. 18-8 X 12.3 cm. Heavy red paper wrappers printed in black on pages and (with price on page ), and up the spine; edges untrimmed. Published October 1924 at 10 francs; 400 copies printed. Imprint on page [107]: Printed at Dijon by Maurice Darantiére M.CM.XXIV Colophon (verso of half-title-leaf): Forty copies were printed on Arches paper and numbered from 1 to 40. [Ordinary copies are printed on unwatermarked paper.] Contents: The Treatise on Harmony [including “Prolegomena”]—George Antheil (Retrospect) [with “Postscript. July 1924.”]—[Notes for Performers by] William Atheling [with Marginalia Emitted by George Antheil. Memoranda from The New Age Selected by Agnes Bedford]—Varia
b. Special copies
Title-page, pagination, and size as in ordinary copies. Heavy red paper wrappers printed in black on pages and (without price on page ) and up the spine, edges untrimmed. Issued in a sealed glassine outer wrapper. Published October 1924 at 4o francs, 40 copies printed. Imprint on page [107] as in ordinary copies. Colophon (verso of half-title-leaf): Forty copies were printed on Arches paper and numbered from 1 to qo. [Short rule, followed by number stamped in. Printed on Arches paper so watermarked. | Notes: The special copies at 40 francs were sold unsigned. Some were subsequently signed by George Antheil, some by Ezra Pound, and some by both. (In 1930 Pound had in his possession 15 copies signed by Antheil only.) Unsold copies (on both papers) were later issued with a buff paper label pasted over the imprint on the title-page: [Within ornamental type border:| CONTACT EDITIONS | 29, QUAI D’ANJOU, PARIS. 100 copies on ordinary paper were imported for sale in the United States by A. and C. Boni, New York. The Pound-Bird correspondence indicates that this book was actually published by Pound himself and Three Mountains Press—and, later, Contact Editions—acted merely as its distributors.
c. First American edition (1927)
[Within ruled border:| anvuet. | AND THE | TREATISE ON HARMOONYY | WITH | SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES | By | EZRA POUND | curcaco| PASCAL COVICLI, Publisher, Inc. | mcmxxvii 2 blank leaves, 150 pp., 3 blank leaves. 19-6 X 13.5 cm. Brown cloth boards stamped in black on front cover and down the spine; end-papers; top edges stained brown. White dust-jacket printed in black and green. Published 14 September 1927 at $2.00, number of copies unknown. On verso of ttle-leaf: ... Printed in the U.S.A. The contents are identical with those of the Paris edition save for the addition of two notes on Antheil headed, respectively, “New Masses, March, 1927” (“Workshop Orchestration”]|—C690—pp. 137-41, and “The New Criterion, August [ie. October], 1926” [“Antheil, 1924-1926”|—C686—pp. 142-50. Note: “The Treatise on Harmony” was first published in England in 1962 in Patria Mia and The Treatise on Harmony (London, Peter Owen Limited) —A63b— pp: [75]-95.
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