Cantos LII-LXXI
by Pound, Ezra
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. (1940). First Edition. Hardcover. Dampstain to top page edges. Foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's lines of poetry written on rear endpaper. Foxing to dust-jacket. Tear along most of rear joint of dust-jacket. Some adhesive stains to reverse side of spine of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 187, [5 (blank)] pages. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 203 x 142mm. Poetry. "As for the form of the decad cantos 62/71, if the critic will read through them before stopping to wonder whether he or she is understanding them; I think he or she will find at the end that he or she has." - from quote from Ezra Pound on front flap of dust-jacket. [Reference: Gallup A47a] .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24040
- Title
- Cantos LII-LXXI
- Author
- Pound, Ezra
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1940)
- Keywords
- English Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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