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Ezra Pound’s Cathay

Wai-lim Yip

260pp.; 22.3 x 14.8 cm. Black cloth, printed in gold and black to spine; white dust-jacket printed in eggshell blue, black, gold and white, with Princeton Paperbacks adverts verso.

Published Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969

Part of Scholarship, II

From the library of A. David Moody

Translations or translucencies; Yip’s deep dive into Pound’s highly influential Cathay (1915) and, given the influence Fenellosa had on Pound, a study of Pound’s lifelong poetic technique. First edition, near fine in a good price-clipped jacket, lightly browned along the top-edge, edge-wear at the top and tail of the spine, and a repaired break to the back. With one note in ink from David Moody laid-in.