POUND, Ezra.

The Pisan Cantos.

Stock Code 110276

[New York, James Laughlin], 1948

£375.00 - £375.00

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£375.00

£375.00 - £375.00

£375.00

First edition. Comprising Cantos LXXIV-LXXXIV, composed when Pound was incarcerated in a prison camp near Pisa. The book was awarded the first Bollingen Prize in 1948.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; bookplate to front pastedown, offsetting to front free endpaper, else unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth, silver lettering to spine, slight discolouration to cloth at foot of spine, with the price-clipped dust-jacket printed in green, jacket somewhat toned, some chipping to spine ends and extremities, else very good.

Gallup A60a.

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