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Cantos LII-LXXI

Ezra Pound

167pp.; 22.5 x 15.7 cm. Black cloth boards lettered in silver down spine. Cream dust-jacket printed in purple and red.

Published Norfolk: New Directions, 1940

Part of Ezra Pound, IV.

The China and Adams Cantos, to show the principles of good government. First American edition, second issuing without the pamphlet to rear, one of 500 copies. With publisher’s advertising slip laid-in. Ex-libris stamp (and scrawl) to front flap: Harless M. Kinzer / … Chicago 1945. Three or four brief pencil annotations. “Quincy” of “John Quincy Adams” correctly cancelled out by Kinzer on front of jacket. A mostly fine copy in a decent jacket with various tape repairs to back. Gallup A47b.