Literary Essays (1954)
A67
Editions
a. First edition
LITERARY ESSAYS | OF | EZRA POUND | Edited with an Introduction | by | T. S. ELIOT | FABER AND FABER LIMITED | 24 Russell Square | London
1 blank leaf, 2 leaves, vii-xv, 464 pp. 22.3 x 14.8 cm. Grey cloth boards lettered in gold on spine; end-papers; top edges stained blue-grey. Yellow dustjacket printed in red and black.
Published 22 January 1954 at 305.5 1745 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: First published in memliv ... Printed in Great Britain by R. Macl.ehose and Company Limited The University Press Glasgow ...
Contents: Introduction by T. S. Eliot—PART ONE: THE ART OF POETRY: A Retrospect—How to Read—The Serious Artist—The Teacher’s Mission—The Constant Preaching to the Mob—Mr Housman at Little Bethel—Date Line—PART TWO: THE TRADITION: The Tradition—Troubadours—Their Sorts and Conditions—Arnaut Daniel—CAVALCANTI HELL—The Renaissance—Notes on Elizabethan Classicists—Translators of Greek: Early Translators of Homer —Dr Williams’ Position—Dubliners and Mr James Joyce—Ulysses [“Paris Letter, May, 1922. Ulysses,” Dial, New York, June 1922|—Joyce—T. S. Eliot—Wyndham Lewis—Arnold Dolmetsch—Vers libre and Arnold Dolmetsch—Brancusi—Index
Note: A new (offset) edition (7500 copies), issued 10 February 1961 at 12s. 6d. in the series “Faber paper covered Editions,” is identified on verso of title-leaf as a lithographic reprint.
b. b. American issue (1954)
LITERARY ESSAYS | OF | EZRA POUND | Edited with an Introduction | by | T. S. ELIOT | A NEW DIRECTIONS BOOK [Norfolk, Conn., James Laughlin]
1 blank leaf, 2 leaves, vii-xv, 464 pp. 22.3 x 15 cm. Black cloth boards lettered in silver down the spine; end-papers. White dust-jacket printed in red and black.
Published 26 February 1954 at $6.00; 5000 sets of sheets printed by Faber and Faber for New Directions. These were bound and jacketed in the United States, 2000 in 1954, 1000 in 1956, 1000 in 1961, and the remainder, making 748 copies, in 1966. On verso of title-leaf: First published in memliv New Directions Norfolk, Conn. ... Printed in Great Britain by R. MACLEHOSE and Company Limited The University Press Glasgow ... New Directions books are published by James Laughlin
Note: An edition paperbound was issued by New Directions 31 March 1968 at $3.25 as their Paperbook 250 in a first printing of 5030 copies.
Content is now editable.