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Confucius: The Unwobbling Pivot & The Great Digest
Ezra Pound, translator
53pp.; 23.5 x 16.2 cm. Soft rose paper oversized wrappers printed in black.
Published Norfolk: New Directions, 1947
Part of Ezra Pound, V.
In Pharos, No. 4. First English appearance of Pound’s translations of The Unwobbling Pivot (in Italian 1945) and The Great Digest (i.e. Ta Hsio; in Italian 1942), two of the Confucian Four Books. A near fine copy, very light discolouration around spine, light crease on front cover light pencil inscriptions on pp. 34-45. Gallup A58a.