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Pound, Ezra.
The Pisan Cantos.
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London;
Date of Publication: 1949
Stock Code: 10033
British first edition. Octavo, pp. 132. Black cloth over boards, gilt spine titles. In the unclipped original publishers’ vermillion red and cream dust-jacket. Small neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, mild toning to endpapers. Cloth and gilt remarkably clean, and contents bright. A little loss to corners and spine tips of dust-jacket. Near fine book in a very good dust-jacket. Pound’s Cantos, his lifelong intellectual poetic diary written over 60 years, is widely regarded as one of the most significant works of modernist poetry in the 20th century. The “Pisan Cantos” instalment began at the end of World War II, during Pound’s internment in American-occupied Italy, and was controversially awarded the first Bollingen Prize in 1948. £90.00