The Cantos of Ezra Pound
by Pound, Ezra
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-177: A New Directions Book. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. New Directions, New York. 1948. 822 pgs. Fourth Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Delmore Schwartz said about The Cantos: "They are one of the touchstones of modern poetry." William Carlos WIlliams said "[Pound] discloses history by its odor, by the feel of it-in the words; fuses it with the words, present and past, to MAKE his Cantos. Make them." Since the 1969 revised edition, the Italian Cantos LXXII and LXXIII (as well as a 1966 fragment concluding the work) have been added. Now appearing for the first time is Pound's recently found Eglish translation of Italian Canto LXXII. EB; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63305
- Title
- The Cantos of Ezra Pound
- Author
- Pound, Ezra
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Fourth Printing
- Publisher
- A New Directions Book
- Place of Publication
- E-177
- Date Published
- 1948
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