“Which brings us to this book, the longest, fullest, most devoted picture of Ezra Pound in his great days that we are likely to have. The Pound I first met in 1948 was a prisoner who’d been through something resembling shell-shock. But the Pound James Laughlin had known a dozen years earlier—! Well, read about him.”
  — Introduction, Hugh Kenner.

First English edition. Tales of EP by James Laughlin, founder of the New Directions publishing house which kept Pound on the shelves for years. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to ffep; mostly fine throughout.