Love Poems of Ancient Egypt – Ezra Pound and Noel Stock
Good Paperback

Description

For sale is a  Near Fine first paperback edition, first printing of Love Poems of Ancient Egypt by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock. First Edition unstated, 1962 New Directions. First Printing  with no subsequent printing. Illustrated.

The exterior of this thin paperback edition is in Very Good condition, with clean, bright covers with no creases, mild surface wear, no title on a square spine with the bottom toned/stained from the missing part of the dust jacket. Also with, clean page blocks, a tight binding with no spine cracks, rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Very Good condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.

The dust jacket is in Good condition with 2″ of the spine bottom missing and the remaining spine is heavily sunned. No title on the spine and the $1.50 price is on the rear. Looks good in a new Brodart archival wrap.

Ezra Pound’s incomparable gifts as a translator delight us anew in Conversations in Courtship, an Egyptian love poem which he has put into English from the Italian versions of his son-in-law Boris de Rachewiltz, a distinguished Egyptologist. Illness having prevented Mr. Pound from continuing the work, the remaining poems of this remarkable collection, which is drawn from the hieroglyphics of papyri and pottery inscriptions, have been translated by the poet Noel Stock. The color, freshness and vitality of these ageless poems offer an enchanting revelation of life as it must have been in the Valley of the Nile more than three thousand years ago.

Very small volume ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.