ABC of Reading (1934)
A35
Editions
a. First edition
ABC | of | READING | by | Ezra Pounp | | LONDON | GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD. | BROADWAY HOUSE: 68— 74 CARTER LANE, E.C. | 1934 xii, 197 pp., 1 blank leaf. 18-9 X 12:7 cm. Rough (or, later, smooth) red cloth boards lettered in gold (or, later, black) on spine; end-papers. Cream dust-jacket printed in red. Published 24 May 1934 at 4s. 6d; 2000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London “The present book is intended to meet the need for fuller and simpler explanation of the method outlined in “How to Read’ . ‘How to Read’ may be considered as a controversial pamphlet summarizing the more active or spiky parts of the author’s earlier critical skirmishing, and taking count of an enemy. The present pages should be impersonal enough to serve as a text-book. The author hopes to follow the tradition of Gaston Paris and S. Reinach, that is, to produce a text-book that can also be read ‘for pleasure as well as profit’ by those no longer in school; by those who have not been to school; or by those who in their college days suffered those things which most of my own generation suffered.” (“How to Study Poetry,” p. ix)
b. First American edition
ABC | OF READING | BY EZRA POUND | NEW HAVEN | YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS | 1934 1 blank leaf, xii, 197 pp. 21 X 13+7 cm. Green cloth boards stamped in black on spine; end-papers. Green dust-jacket printed in red and black. 51 Published 18 September 1934 at $2.00; 1016 copies printed. On verso of ttle-leaf .. Printed in the United States of America ... Note: A new edition of AB C of Reading was published by Faber and Faber in London on 22 March 1951 ina first impression of 2670 copies. Faber and Faber printed also 3500 sets, of sheets for New Directions, who issued them, also in March 1951, as No. 30 in their “New Classics Series.” This book is an exact reprint and contains no new material. In April 1960 it was issued by New Directions at $1.35 as “New Directions Paperbook 89” (9897 copies), and on 13 October 1961 by Faber and Faber at 6s. in their series of “Faber paper covered Editions” (10,000 copies).
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