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The Cantos of Ezra Pound, Some Testimonies

[Ford Madox Ford, curator]
D. C. [?], editor
Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, H. D., William Carlos Williams etc.

Published New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933

22pp.; 19.7 x 13.3 cm. White paper wrappers printed in black; wire-stitched.

A leaflet curated by F. M. Ford and at his instigation in a letter to the publishers to accompany the first American edition of Pound’s Draft of XXX Cantos, distributed gratis. Contains tributes to EP from a brilliant selection of writers, being: Hugh Walpole; Edmund Wilson; William Carlos Williams; Allen Tate; Elizabeth Madox Roberts; Francesco Monotti; Archibald MacLeish; Paul Morand; James Joyce; Ernest Hemingway; Ford Madox Ford; T. S. Eliot; H. D.; John Peale Bishop; Basil Bunting. Opening with an “Editor’s Note” signed D. C. who is probably someone at F&R, but may be Desmond Chute. A near fine copy; scarce, let alone in this condition: a little fading along the spine and top edge, a couple light marks to the covers, and very gently handled. Detailed under Gallup A31c.