The Life of Ezra Pound by Noel Stock - 1970-07-01

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1970. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. 9x6x1. First American edition. Top edge of front jacket panel heavily bumped. 1970 Hard Cover. xvii, 472 pp. First published in 1970, this is a detailed and balanced biography of one of the most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Ezra Pound, an American who left home for Venice and London at the age of twenty-three, was a leading member of "the modern movement", a friend and helper of Joyce, Eliot, Yeats, Hemingway, an early supporter of Lawrence and Frost. As a critic of modern society his far-reaching and controversial theories on politics, economics and religion led him to broadcast over Rome Radio during the Second World War, after which he was indicted for treason but declared insane by an American court. He then spent more than twelve years in St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Washington, D.C. In 1958 the changes against him were dropped and he returned to… Read More

New York, NY: Random House, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good to Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 472 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Good to very good, price clipped dust jacket showing small edge chips. This copy published July 1970 by Pantheon Press. First American Edition. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

Random House, July 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FIRST / VG-/Good. FIRST EDITION, STATED. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is a bit worn about the edges and somewhat scuffed, but without any serious tears. pieces missing along top of front and back jacket. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Random House, 1970-07-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!