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Ezra POUND. Personae. FIRST EDITION - INSCRIBED BY THE DEDICATEE TO POUND’S SON
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AUTHOR: POUND, Ezra.
TITLE: Personae.
PUBLISHER: London: Elkin Mathews, 1909.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY THE DEDICATEE TO POUND’S SON. 1 vol., inscribed on the dedication page by the dedicatee, Mary Moore, to Pound's son, Omar Shakespear Pound: “For Omar--a / wonderful luncheon party-- / all this & Parker Too - Mary Moore Cross -”, additionally inscribed by Omar Shakespear in pencil on front free endpaper ("Nelly / from / O.S. / May, 09"). Bound in the publisher's light brown paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt.
CONDITION: Head and foot of spine rubbed with some minor loss, upper front back corner rubbed with some slight loss, internally clean and bright.
REFERENCE: Gallup A3
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A handsome presentation copy of Ezra Pound's first book of poetry, inscribed by the dedicatee, Mary Moore (1884-1976), to Pound's son, Omar Shakespear Pound (1926-2010).
Moore and Ezra Pound first met in the summer of 1907 when Pound was tutoring in Scudder Falls, New Jersey, near to her home in Trenton. What started as a brief romance with intimations of marriage spawned into a lifelong friendship and correspondence. As Moore recalled years after their first meeting, she “first saw--or heard, rather--the poet reclining in a hammock on his own front porch, booming out verses in some foreign language. All that was visible of him was a profusion of red hair at one end of the hammock, and sharp-pointed shoes at the other” (Davenport, Ezra Pound, p. 583). Smitten by Moore's self-assertive personality, a courtship ensued over the summer, but came to a halt after Pound's departure to teach at Wabash College that fall. Following his return to the east coast shortly after, they resumed a friendship that would last their entire lives, and remained correspondents up until Pound's death, in 1972. In 1912 Moore married Frederick Cross, and in 1914, Pound married Dorothy Shakespear, of which Omar was their only son. Later in life Moore would find her position as a footnote in Pound scholarship widely amusing, and her correspondence with Pound is now held at the University of Pennsylvania.
Likely alluding to their on-again, off-again relationship in the days before their mutual marriages, and that preceded Pound's move to Europe in 1908, he dedicated this book to her, “if she wants it”. Upon its publication, he sent Moore a copy. Pound frequently revised this collection of poetry, but his dedication to Moore always remained.
- Dimensions:Height: 7 in (17.78 cm)Width: 5 in (12.7 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
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- Period:1900-1909
- Date of Manufacture:1909
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Hillsborough, NJ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU6214240871072
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