With Pound's 2nd Ever Publication, "Raphaelite Latin"

Collection of Pound publications including Raphaelite Latin, two spiral notebooks with notes towards a bibliography, and a reproduction of an autograph fair copy manuscript of "And Thus in Nineveh"

Price: $2,500.00


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With Pound's 2nd Ever Publication, "Raphaelite Latin" Clipped from publications, some small closed tears and rubbing around the edges, overall toning, but very good.

Item #338213

A collection of contributions by Pound to periodicals, including Pound's second ever publication, his first essay:

1) "Raphaelite Latin," clipped from Book News Monthly, Philadeliphia, xxv. I (Sept. 1906), p. 31-4. Includes Pound's verse translations of Renaissance Latin poets Catiglione, Camillo Capilupi, and Hieronymus Angerianus. The preceding publication, was a text in Latin and archaic Provençal entitled “Belangal Alba,” published in the Hamilton Literary Magazine during his last year there in 1905, and later revised for inclusion in Personae. Gallup C2

2) "Towards Orthology", clipped from New English Weekly, vi. 26 (11 Apr. 1935), p. 534. Gallup C1180

3) "Landon, or the Loser", clipped from New English Weekly, x. 6 (19 Nov. 1936), p. 105-6. Gallup C1378

4) "Inaction Française", clipped from New English Weekly, x. 8 (3 Dec. 1936), p. 148-9. Gallup C1381

5) "Bravo, Roosevelt!", clipped from New English Weekly, x. 10 (17 Dec. 1936), p. 187. Gallup C1384

6) "The Dam' Nigger and the Banana Tree", clipped from New English Weekly, x. 11 (24 Dec. 1936), p. 207-8. Gallup C1385

7) "L'economia ortologica. Il problema central" clipped from Rassegna Monetaria, xxxiv. 7/8 (July/Aug. 1937), p. 705-15. Gallup C1410

8) "Economia ortologica. Le basi etiche" clipped from Rassegna Monetaria, xxxiv. 9/10 (Sept./Oct. 1937), p. 1101-1106. Gallup C1416

9) "Peaceways", clipped from New English Weekly, xii. 12 (30 Dec. 1937), p. 227-228. Gallup C1428

10) Clipping of "Biglietto emesso da una società di legname in America, amministrata dal nonno di E. Pound, e garantita da merce o da legname in magazzino" from an Italian economics article, possibly Rassegna Monetaria, p. 393-4

11) Photographic reproduction of an autograph fair copy manuscript of "And Thus in Nineveh"

12) 2 spiral notebooks, 8vo-sized; the first one completely full, from 1906-1962, with Pound's publications listed a year per page, and quite extensive; the second with twelve pages of addenda going up to 1972.