“The basic selection for this book was made by Ezra Pound in September, 1966, and it was first published in London by Faber & Faber in 1967. In this American edition, which was composed in Monotype Bembo, in the style of the Mardersteig first printings of The Pisan Cantos, Section Rock-Drill and Thrones, the more compressed setting making a few extra pages available…” — Publisher’s Note, James Laughlin, 1970.

As the Faber edition, extended with the rest of Canto LII, the first 107 lines of Canto LXXXIII, and fragments CXV and CXVI which had only been published after the Faber edition (1969). 1 cm tear to fore-edge of page 3 [Canto I]; gentle yellowing to wraps. Gallup A89b.