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A Draft of XXX Cantos

Ezra Pound

149pp.; 22.7 x 15.8 cm. Black cloth boards lettered in silver down spine. Yellow dust-jacket printed in brown and black.

Published New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, [1933]

Part of Ezra Pound, V.

First (American) edition of Pound’s first 30 Cantos; the first appearance following the Parisian publication by Nancy Cunard’s Hours Press. First impression, with a cancel leaf for pp. 61-62 omitting the ‘i’ in ‘shit’ (Gallup only located 3 unexpurgated copies). A second impression followed with the same expurgation bound without cancels. A very nice copy, printed on much better paper-stock than the Faber edition, and clean throughout with a neat gift inscription dated 1934 to ffep. Some light marking to the cloth. Dust-jacket price-clipped, spine sunned and some scratching to the rear. Gallup A31c.