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Ezra Pound

Published London: Elkin Mathews, 1915

31pp.; 19.3 x 13.2 cm. Heavy tan paper wrappers printed in black, folded over end-papers.

Containing some of Pound’s most beautiful poems, translations by Ernest Fenollosa from the Chinese of Li Bai, reworked by Pound. One of 1000 copies. Wraps very lightly age-worn with darkneing along the spine and an unfortunate few dark stains to the front cover (petals on a wet, black bough); inside the best copy one could hope for, without a spot of fox as is common for this book. Gallup A9.