Search Results: Drafts & Fragments Of Cantos Cx-Cxvii by Ezra Pound

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New York: New Directions, 1968. Hard cover. Very good/Very good. Jacket is worn and rubbed along edges, and has a small tear at top of spine, but text and images are clear and legible. Cover is in great condition. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked.

[New York: New Directions Pub. Corp., 1968. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.. 32 p. 21 cm. A New Directions book.. Rubbing wear to bottom of cover (see photo). Pages somewhat faded, but with no markings.

New Directions, 1968. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. VG with clean, unmarked interior. DJ has some spotting, toned with light edgewear.

New Directions Pub. Corp, 1968. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New Directions Pub. Corp, 1968T. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Small chip in top of DJ, DJ with age toning/sunning. Occasional marginalia. Pages clean and binding sound.

London: Faber and Faber, (1970).. First UK edition.. 32 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Gallup A91b.

London: Faber & Faber, Incorporated, 1970. Small four-digit number in ink to ffep. First U.K. edition; 32pp. Tight, clean copy of this later work of the author's noted Cantos series. . First British Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Faber and Faber, [1970] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Light shelfwear. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has some light soiling and two small tears.

London: Faber and Faber. 1970. First UK edition, first printing. First UK edition, first printing. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm (a touch of bowing to boards), the contents clean throughout. Light spotting to fore- and upper edges. In the dustwrapper, nicked to the upper spine tip, the spine a touch toned and a little rubbed to folds; otherwise clean and bright. Not price-clipped (20s / £1.00 net to the front flap). Returning to Italy in 1958 following his thirteen year confinement at St Elizabeth's asylum in Washington, Pound, now in his seventies, clearly felt himself unable to realise whatever conclusion he might have envisaged for the monumental series of Cantos he had been engaged with for over forty years. These final Cantos are at once a confession of failure and, paradoxically, as George Kearns has it, "a bravura gesture of technique and spirit" in the face of such disappointment.… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First English edition. Octavo. 97pp. Cloth. Fine copy in fine dust jacket, crisp and bright. *Gallup* A91b: 2000 copies printed.

Faber and Faber, London., 1970. First U.K. edition. Octavo. 32 pages.Fine in fine dustwrapper.

London: Faber and Faber, 1970. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Page edges with a bit of light foxing else fine in unprinted gray wrappers. Presumably printed in small numbers; the trade edition was only published in 2,000 copies.

[New York, James Laughlin, 1968]. . First trade edition; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth, portrait after Gaudier-Brzeska blindstamped to upper cover, silver lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket, very slight toning to edges, else near-fine. One of 3000 copies, issued six months before the limited edition. Several of the pieces had previously appeared in various magazines, but are here considerably revised. Gallup A91a.

[New York]: New Directions Books, [1968]. 32pp. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper a trifle browned. A crisp copy. From the library, though not identified as such, of English Movement poet and literary critic Donald Davie (1922-1995). The first trade edition of a selection of fragments from modernist poet Ezra Pound's (1885-1972) Cantos 110-117. Several of the pieces had previously appeared in various magazines, but are here considerably revised. . First trade edition. 8vo.