“I have made these selections to indicate the main elements in the Cantos. To the specialist the task of explaining them. As Jung says: ‘Being essentially the instrument for his work he (the artist) is subordinate to it and we have no reason for expecting him to interpret it for us. He has done the best that is in him by giving it form and he must leave interpretation to others and to the future.’” — Foreword, Ezra Pound, 1966.

First edition, third printing. Faber first published this selection, made by Pound in September 1966, in 1967 and again 1969 and 1974 (this copy). Selection dated incorrectly as September 1965 on both inside cover and page 6, in contradiction with Gallup’s copies. With pink bookseller’s stamp “Shakespeare and Company / Kilometer Zero Paris” and pencil price ‘10F’ to half-title. Covers lightly rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Gallup A89a.