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POUND, EZRA, Umbra. The Early Poems of ....
London: Elkin Mathews, 1920. First edition. 8vo. . Gray paper boards with canvas back, lettered in blue. Very good copy, some light foxing to preliminaries. Bookplate of Coman Leavenworth on the front pastedown. Gallup A20a. ΒΆ Poet and critic R.P. BLACKMUR'S COPY, signed by him at the age of 18 on the flyleaf: "August 23,1922 "Richard Palmer Blackmur" Blackmur quotes beneath: "'Now and again divers dive down for dreams' Stewart Mitchell." Blackmur was 18 when he signed this book, and was later to become one of America's most influential literary critics. Mitchell was the managing editor of THE DIAL at the time. Blackmur has written four marginal notes in pencil on pp. 57, 59, 84, & 128
Offered for US$ 900.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 234483