Make It New (1934)
A36
Editions
a. First edition
MAKE IT NEW | ESSAYS BY | EZRA POUND | | LONDON | FABER AND FABER LIMITED | 24 RUSSELL SQUARE
1 blank leaf, 3 leaves, 407, [1] pp. 22.6 x 15.3 cm. Fine- (later coarse-) grain green cloth boards lettered in gold on spine (publishers’ name at foot in letters at first approximately 3.5 mm.—later approximately 4 mm.—high, with the “y’” in “anp” at first approximately 4 mm.—later approximately 3 mm.—wide), end-papers (at first thick, later thin); top edges stained purple-brown,; other edges untrimmed. Green dust-jacket printed in black and red (later with old price clipped from lower front flap and new price printed in).
Published 27 September 1934 at 125. 6d. (later raised to 155.); 1600 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: First published in September MCMXXXIV ... Printed in Great Britain at the University Press Cambridge ... Imprint on page [408]: Cambridge: Printed by W. Lewis, M.A., at the University Press
Contents: Date Line—I. Troubadours: Their Sorts and Conditions (about 1912 [i.e. published October 1913])-II. Arnaut Daniel ([1911/]1920)—III. Notes on Elizabethan Classicists (before 1918 [i.e. 1917/1918])—IV. Translators of Greek (before 1918 [i.e. 1918/1919])—V. French Poets ((“A Study in French Poets”} February [October] 1918) [with “Postscript (anno XII [i.e 1934]) VI. Henry James and Remy de Gourmont (August 1918 and February 1919 [i.e. 1. Henry James (“In Explanation,” “A Shake Down,” “‘The Middle Years’” “The Notes to ‘The Ivory Tower’”—1918). II. Remy de Gourmont, a Distinction. Followed by Notes (FEBRUARYIMARCH 1919)})—A Stray Document [“A Retrospect,” with prefatory note (1912/1913)|—VII. Cavalcanti [“Mediaevalism,” “Donna mi prega,” “Partial Explanation,’ “The Canzone,” “The Other Dimension,” “Hendecasyllables,” “The Vocabulary,” “The Canzone: Further Notes,” “Guido’s Relations”] (1910/1931)
b. First American (offset) edition (1935)
MAKE IT NEW | ESSAYS BY EZRA POUND | [ideograms in 4 lines] | 1935 | NEW HAVEN - YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1 blank leaf, 3 leaves, 407 pp. 22.3 x 15 cm. Tan cloth boards stamped in green on both covers and on spine; end-papers. Green dust-jacket printed in black.
Published 12 March 1935 at $3.75; 1000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... Printed in the United States of America... [by offset from the first edition] On recto of first leaf: Published on the Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund.
Content is now editable.