Imaginary Letters by Ezra Pound

POUND, Ezra. Imaginary Letters. Paris, The Black Sun Press, 1930.

First edition in book form, one of the original 375 copies.

Ezra Pound’s Imaginary Letters were originally published between 1917 and 1918 in the Little Review, the American avant-garde literary magazine founded and edited by Margaret C. Anderson.

The Black Sun Press was an English-language publishing house based in Paris. Founded in 1927 by American expatriates Harry and Caresse Crosby, it published the early works of influential literary figures such as Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Crane, D. H. Lawrence, and Hemingway. The books, all handset, were typographically impeccable and beautifully bound. The Black Sun Press closed in 1970, following Caresse Crosby’s death.

Octavo, pp. 56, edges untrimmed; a clean copy in the original printed wrappers with fold-over flaps enclosed in a glassine dust jacket, with the publisher’s beige paper-covered slipcase (glassine dust jacket browned at spine, chipped with some loss, slipcase slightly worn).

Minkoff A-38.