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The Chinese written character as a medium for poetry

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The Chinese written character as a medium for poetry

by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa

About this title: This important and much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa (and published in Instigations, London, 1920) has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Professor George Kennedy of Yale, who called it "a small mass of confusion.

The old theory as to the nature of the Chinese written character (which Pound and Fenollosa followed) is that the written character is ideogrammic-a stylized picture of the thing or concept it represents. The opposing theory (which prevails today among scholars) is that the character may ... read more

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Fenollosa, Ernest

price: $4.00

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Binding: Trade Paperback Publisher: City Lights Books Date Published: 1936 ISBN-13: 9780872860148 ISBN: 0872860140

Description: Very Good. read more

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Book: Very Good

 

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Name: Alibris, NV, USA
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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Ernest Fenollosa; Ezra Pound (Ed. )

price: $9.50

Ships from NY, USA

Binding: Paperback Publisher: City Lights Books Date Published: 1969

Description: Very Good. City Lights Books, 1969. Paperback. Cover has very slight shelfwear, light foxing. Pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Binding is tight. Beautiful condition. read more

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Book: Very Good

 

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Fenollosa, Ernest; Edited By Ezra Pound

price: $10.00

Ships from OH, USA

Edition: First Edition, Fifth Printing. Binding: Paperback Publisher: City Lights Books Date Published: 1969

Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Pound edited Fenollosa's manuscript and had it published in 1920. The essay asserts the theory, now widely disputed, that the Chinese characters are stylized pictures of the things or concepts they represent. Pound saw it as supporting the imagist movemant in modern poetry. 45 pages. This copy is in good condition. It would be better but for the underlining in ink through much of the text. The binding is tight, and the spine has no reading creases. The cover shows ... read more

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Book: Good

 

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound

price: $13.58

Ships from FL, USA

Binding: Softcover Publisher: City Lights Books Date Published: 1986-06 ISBN-13: 9780872860148 ISBN: 0872860140

Description: Good. Good to very good cond. Cover corners & edges lightly worn from use. Front cover creased & dinged. Sm. stain inside front cover-front end page. Some pencil underlining, but overall text looks good. Sharp corners. Tight Spine. read more

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Book: Good

 

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa

price: $13.75

Ships from AR, USA

Binding: Unknown Binding Publisher: City Lights Books Date Published: 1968

Description: Good. -3rd Printing--45 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The soft cover has only light signs of use. -Publish Place: -Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more

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Book: Good

 

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Name: Once Upon A Time Books, AR, USA

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Fenollosa, Ernest

price: $15.00

Ships from PA, USA

Edition: 2nd Printing Binding: Original Cloth Publisher: City Light Books, New Date Published: 1936

Description: Chinese Characters. Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. Trade Edition A trade paperback edition of the 2nd printing. Corners are fairly sharp. 2 crease to the corners on the lower front and rea. Very little edge wear. The book is solid, tight and all pages are full in tact. The book is editied by Ezra Pound. There are 45 numbered pages all of which are very clean. There is No UNDERLINING> A very clean and solid copy. read more

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Book: Very Good

 

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Name: Bar Harbor Used Books, PA, USA

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Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry new book

Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Ernest Fenollosa

price: $21.00

Ships from NY, USA

Binding: Softcover Publisher: City Lights Books Date Published: 1986 ISBN-13: 9780872860148 ISBN: 0872860140

Description: New Paperback, 64 pages. City Lights Books (1986) read more

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Book: New

 

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Name: Frozen Lava Lamp, NY, USA

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry With Confucius Unwobbling Pivot & Great Digest

by Fenollosa, Ernest And Ezra Pound

price: $26.50

Ships from MO, USA

Binding: Trade Paperback Publisher: Square Dollar Series Date Published: 1953

Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Date is assumed but book matches my other titles in this series published in 1953/54. Excellent with no marks or creases. read more

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Book: Very Good

 

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. (Together With: ) Confucius, the Unwobbling Pivot & the Great Digest. Translated By Ezra Pound

by Fenollosa, Ernest,

price: $53.00

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Binding: Softcover Publisher: N.Y., Kasper & Horton Date Published: n.d. (c.1950)

Description: With notes and commentary on the text and the ideograms together with Ciu Hsi's 'Preface' to the Chung Yung and Tseng's commentary on the Testament. 96 pp. Or. printed grey wrp., book block stapled. Softcover. (Spine ends dam. /partly gone, spine & cover sl. browned/stained, hinges splitting, but holding. Wrappers fair, contents VG). Square $ series. read more

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Book: Fair

 

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Name: Charbos Antiquariaat, NETHERLANDS

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by (Pound, Ezra). Fenollosa, Ernest

price: $55.60

Ships from MA, USA

Edition: 1st ed. thus, as part of the Square Dollar Series, later issue Binding: Softcover Publisher: Square $ Series, (Washington, D.C. ) Date Published: 1951

Description: (POUND, Ezra). THE CHINESE WRITTEN CHARACTER AS A MEDIUM FOR POETRY by Ernest Fenollosa. With offset of the Calcutta edition of the PIVOT [Edited and Translated by Ezra Pound]. 8vo, gray printed wrappers, 96 pages, stapled. Wrappers are tanned and a bit rubbed, short creased tear on rear cover, else a very good copy. read more

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Book: Very Good

 

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Name: Waiting For Godot Books, MA, USA

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by (Pound, Ezra). Fenollosa, Ernest

price: $94.40

Ships from MA, USA

Edition: 1st ed. thus, as part of the Square Dollar Series, later issue, Binding: Softcover Publisher: Square $ Series, (Washington, D.C. ) Date Published: 1951

Description: (POUND, Ezra). THE CHINESE WRITTEN CHARACTER AS A MEDIUM FOR POETRY By Ernest Fenollosa. With offset of the Calcutta edition of the PIVOT [Edited and Translated by Ezra Pound]. 8vo, gray printed wrappers, 96 pages, stapled. A fine, bright copy. read more

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Book: Fine/Like New

 

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Name: Waiting For Godot Books, MA, USA

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by (Pound, Ezra). Fenollosa, Ernest

price: $111.10

Ships from MA, USA

Edition: 1st ed. thus, as part of the Square Dollar Series, variant Binding: Softcover Publisher: Square $ Series, (Washington, D.C. ) Date Published: 1951

Description: (POUND, Ezra). THE CHINESE WRITTEN CHARACTER AS A MEDIUM FOR POETRY By Ernest Fenollosa. With offset of the Calcutta edition of the PIVOT [Edited and Translated by Ezra Pound]. 8vo, gray printed wrappers, 96 pages, stapled. A fine copy of an elusive issue of this publication. read more

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Book: Fine/Like New

 

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Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, the

by Fenollosa, Ernest (Ezra Pound-Editor)

price: $183.00

Ships from ON, CANADA

Edition: First Edition Binding: Hard Cover Publisher: Stanley Nott, London, England Date Published: 1936

Description: Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 8vo-21 x 16.5 cm.; 52 pp. Black cloth on boards with a cream paper on spine and red lettering on same. This is one of the Ideogramic Series which was edited by Ezra Pound. At the time of printing, the series had 3 volumes in it of which this is #1. Pound provided the foreword and notes for this edition, subtitled "An Ars Poetica". No additional printings are noted. The notes which were finished by Pound from preliminary work by Fenollosa are commentaries on the ... read more

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Book: Very Good

 

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry With a Foreword and Notes By Ezra Pound

by Fenollosa, Ernest

price: $300.00

Ships from PA, USA

Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Arrow Editions, NY Date Published: 1936

Description: First edition, American issue. Small quarto. Green paper-covered boards with printed labels. Illustrations. 2000 sets of sheets were printed by The Kynoch Press (England) of which an unspecified number were used for the Arrow edition; Stanley Nott published the UK edition and in 1937 Faber purchased the rest of the sets and sold 173 copies. Several hundred were destroyed in the London blitz. Boards with extremity toning and pages with beginning faint toning; dustjacket has toning on the spine ... read more

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Book: Very Good

 

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry new book

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound

price: $6.57

Ships from NJ, USA

Binding: Softcover ISBN-13: 9780872860148 ISBN: 0872860140

Description: New. NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING! Brand new item. read more

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Chinese Written Character as a Medium

by Fenollosa, Ernest

price: $10.29

Ships from OR, USA

Binding: S TRADE PAPER Publisher: CITY LIGHTS BOOKS + ISBN-13: 9781151406859 ISBN: 1151406856

Description: Very good read more

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Book: Very Good

 

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Fenollosa, Ernest (Ezra Pound, Editor)

price: $15.00

Ships from CT, USA

Edition: Fifth Printing Binding: Soft Cover Publisher: City Lights, San Francisco Date Published: 1969

Description: Near Fine. 45 pages. The text is clean. A nice, tight early copy. read more

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Book: Very Good

 

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Name: Kingfisher Books, CT, USA

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Fenollosa, Ernest; (Ezra Pound, Editor)

price: $19.98

Ships from WI, USA

Edition: Second Printing Binding: Soft Cover Publisher: City Lights, San Francisco Date Published: 1964

Description: Very Good- No Jacket as Issued. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Perfect-bound, illustrated wraps, 45 pages plus ads, minute wear at extemities, front cover has soft creasing, faint water droplet mark upper front cover, two faint abrasions lower front cover from sticker removals, a sliver of faint damp staining at mid-fore-edge of first three pages, clean throughout. read more

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Book: Good

 

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, With Offset of the Calcutta Edition of the Pivot (Square $ Series)

by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa

price: $20.00

Ships from MA, USA

Publisher: Square Dollar Series Date Published: 1951

Description: Acceptable. Personalized inside. some underlining. read more

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry used book

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Fenollosa, Ernest And Ezra Pound

price: $20.00

Ships from PA, USA

Binding: Paperback Publisher: City Lights Publishers, San Francisco ISBN-13: 9780872860148 ISBN: 0872860140

Description: Very Good in Wraps. Softcover copy; edited by Ezra Pound. Text is clean except for some light pencil marks on a few pages; wraps are rubbed with some small crease marks. read more

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Book: Very Good

 

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Name: Wellington Square Bookshop, PA, USA

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Fenollosa, Ernest

price: $21.00

Ships from NY, USA

Binding: Softcover; Fifth Printing Publisher: CITY LIGHTS BOOKS, CALIF. Date Published: 1969

Description: VG. EDITED BY EZRA POUND.; 12mo; 45 pages. read more

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Book: Very Good

 

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Name: Julian's Books, NY, USA

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry used book

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by [Pound, Ezra] Fenollosa, Ernest

price: $25.00

Ships from NY, USA

Binding: Soft cover Publisher: City Lights Date Published: 1969 ISBN-13: 9780872860148 ISBN: 0872860140

Description: Nearly Like New. 45 pages. Like new. read more

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Book: Very Good

 

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Chinese Written Character new book

Chinese Written Character

by Fenollosa E

price: $26.74

Ships from TX, USA

Binding: Softcover Publisher: City Light ISBN-13: 9780872860148 ISBN: 0872860140

Description: New in new dust jacket. PLEASE NOTE that we do not offer expedited shipping. Orders placed with the priority shipping option will automatically be canceled. ISBN10: 0872860140. read more

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Book: New

Available qty: 3

 

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Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. Together With: Confucius. the Unwobbling Pivot & the Great Digest, Translated By Ezra Pound

by Fenollosa, Ernest & Ezra Pound (Transl. )

price: $27.50

Ships from NY, USA

Binding: Soft Publisher: John Kasper, New York Date Published: 0000

Description: Very Good. 8vo Stiff printed wraps with flaps, 96pp. Spime & covers somewhat darkened, else very good. read more

condition:

Book: Very Good

 

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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry used book

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

by Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound

price: $28.85

Ships from NJ, USA

Binding: Softcover ISBN-13: 9780872860148 ISBN: 0872860140

Description: Like New. NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING! May have remainder marks. read more