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82 POUND, Ezra (ed.) Profile. An Anthology Collected in MCMXXXI. Milan: printed for John Scheiwiller, 1932 Inscribed by the publisher First and limited edition, first printing, number 165 of 250 copies only, inscribed by the publisher on the front free
endpaper “to my good friend Enrico Giannelli [?] [signed] J. Scheiwiller Milan, January 19th, 45”. This collection contains poems by Modernist writers including W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, and Marianne Moore. These works were chosen because Pound considered them to be poems which “have stuck in my memory and which may possibly define their epoch, or at least rectify current ideas of it in respect to at least one contour” (preface). Octavo. Original grey-green wrappers, title to spine and front cover in black. Head of spine a little worn and reglued, slight toning to spine and creasing round extremities, a few spots to lower edge. A very good copy. ¶ Gallup B28. £1,500 [153806] 83 PROUST, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. London: Chatto &
Windus / Alfred A. Knopf, 1922–31 A complete set of the first English translation
First editions in English, first impressions, of Proust’s celebrated roman-fleuve, scarce and sought after with all volumes in first impression and in such sharp condition. The final volume, Time Regained , has the original publisher’s prospectus for the complete set laid in. Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu was first published in France from 1913 to 1927. It is universally acclaimed as among the most influential works of modern fiction. Proust read and
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