Des Imagistes (1914)
B7
Editions
a. First edition (book issue)
DES IMAGISTES | AN ANTHOLOGY | [ornament] | NEW YORK | ALBERT AND CHARLES BONI | 96 FIFTH AVENUE | 1914
63 pp. 19.5 x 13.4 cm. Blue cloth boards stamped in blind and in gold on front cover and in gold on spine; wove end-papers; fore edges roughly trimmed, bottom edges untrimmed.
Published 2 March 1914 at $1.00; number of copies unknown. Part of the same impression as the Glebe for February 1914—C125, but with binding as above in place of pale olive paper wrappers printed in green (with, on front: DES IMAGISTES | [short ornamental rule] | [monogram:] The Glebe | [short thick ornamental rule]| VOLUME 1 | NUMBER 5 | [short thick ornamental rule] | FEBRUARY | 1914 | [short thick ornamental rule] | Subscription | Three Dollars Yearly | ruts issuE 50 CENTS | [thick ornamental rule] | AN ANTHOLOGY) and title-page (as above) with an ornament in place of the Glebe monogram. At least two lots of paper were used, apparently indiscriminately, for both periodical and book, one without watermark, the other watermarked with a capital D within a diamond above the words: Regal Antique. The periodical has, inserted at the end, a leaf of advertisements printed on yellow paper not present in the book. Later copies of both periodical and book have, tipped in at the front, a slip (measuring approximately 6.5 x 13 cm.) acknowledging permission to reprint certain poems from Poetry. This slip was printed and inserted at the instance of Harriet Monroe. Edited by Ezra Pound, who sent the manuscript to Alfred Kreymborg, then one of the editors of the periodical, in the summer of 1913. Alfred Kreymborg in his autobiographical 7roubadour (New York, 1925—see especially pages 204 and 205, where excerpts from two letters and a card to him from Pound are quoted) states that he and his co-editor Man Ray originally planned to publish the Imagist anthology as the first number of the Glebe, but the plans were changed by Albert and Charles Boni when they took over the financing of the periodical. (The first number when it appeared was dated September 1913.)
Contains “Doria,” “The Return,” “After Ch’u Yuan,” “Liu Ch’e,” “Fan-piece for Her Imperial Lord,” and “Ts’ai Chi’h,” by Ezra Pound, pp. 41-46. “To Hulme (T. E.) and [Desmond] Fitzgerald)’ also by Pound, is printed (with a note at the end: “Written for the cenacle of i909 vide Introduction to ‘The Complete Poetical Works of T. E. Hulme, published at the end of ‘Ripostes.’”), pp. 57-58, as the first of four “Documents,” the last of which (p. 63) is a page of bibliographical information concerning published writings of the contributors to the volume. The other poets represented are Richard Aldington (ten poems, and one of the “Documents”), H. D. (seven poems), F. S. Flint (five), Skipwith Cannell (one), Amy Lowell (one), William Carlos Williams (one), James Joyce (one), Ford Madox Hueffer (one, and one of the “Documents”), Allen Upward (one), and John Cournos (one).
b. English (book) issue
DES IMAGISTES | AN ANTHOLOGY | [ornament] | [stamped in:] LONDON: THE POETRY BOOKSHOP | 35 DEVONSHIRE STREET, | THEOBALDS RD., W.C. | [in some copies:] . | [in all copies, printed:] NEW YORK | ALBERT AND CHARLES BONI | 96 FIFTH AVENUE | 1914
63 pp. 19 x 13 cm. Green paper boards lettered in black on front cover: IMAGISTES | THE POETRY BOOKSHOP; and up the spine: IMAGISTES; laid end-papers.
Published April 1914 at 2s. 6d.; number of copies unknown. The American (book-issue) sheets with English imprint printed below the half-title on page [1] and stamped from type (as indicated above) on the title-page, with position and quality of impression varying from copy to copy. (At least two stamps were used, one with an ornamental “o,” the other without it.) The acknowledgment slip to Poetry was not tipped into the English issue of the book.
c. Shay re-issue of the periodical issue (1917):
DES IMAGISTES | AN ANTHOLOGY | NEW YORK | FRANK SHAY, Publisher | 1917
63 pp. 19.2 x 13.3 cm. Blue paper wrappers printed in red-brown on page [i]: B6 Des Imagistes, an anthology | [device] | FRANK SHAY, PUBLISHER | NEW YORK; and up the spine: pgs imacistes: An Anthology 1914
Published 1917; number of copies unknown. Copies of the Glebe for February 1914—C125—with wrappers removed (all copies examined have offset from the front wrapper of the periodical and some have, at the joints, traces of the original olive paper of the wrappers and the yellow paper of the advertisement leaf) and with the original title-leaf excised and replaced by a cancel title-leaf (with title-page as above).
d. Shay (?) re-issue of the periodical issue ([circa 1920?])
DES IMAGISTES | AN ANTHOLOGY | [monogram:] The Glebe | NEW YORK | ALBERT AND CHARLES BONI 96 FIFTH AVENUE | 1914 [i.e. New York, Frank Shay? circa 19207]
63 pp. 19.2 x 13.3 cm. White paper wrappers printed all-over in orange (or green) and in black on page [i]: [oramental rule] | pes mmacistes | [ornamental rule] | AN ANTHOLOGY | [ornamental rule]
Published about 1920?; number of copies unknown. Copies of the Glebe for February 1914—C125—with wrappers removed (offset and traces of paper as in 1917 re-issue) and new wrappers supplied, but with the original title-leaf for the periodical uncancelled. (The wrappers are similar to those used for other publications issued in 1920 by Frank Shay.)
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