POUND, Ezra. Imaginary Letters. Paris: The Black Sun Press. 1930.
8vo. Original printed wrapper with fold-over flaps enclosed in a delicate glassine dust jacket; Red title lettering to front wrapper and publishers device in red and black on back; edges untrimmed and some pages unopened; pp. 56; lacking paper covered beige slicase but condition fine.
First edition in book form, number 63 of 300 numbered copies printed on Navarre paper, from a limited edition of 375 copies.
Ezra Pound’s Imaginary Letters was originally published between 1917 and 1918 in the Little Review, the American avant-garde literary magazine founded and edited by Margaret C. Anderson, for whom Pound acted as foreign editor in London.
The Black Sun Press was an iconic English-language publishing house based in Paris founded by American expatriates Harry Crosby and his wife Caresse Crosby in 1927.
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