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Pound, Ezra.
Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los cantares.
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London;
Date of Publication: 1957
Stock Code: 15206
First British edition, after the first Italian of 1955. Duodecimo, pp., [2], 107, collated and complete. Publisher’s original black cloth; titled in bronze to spine; white end-papers. In the original unclipped yellow dust-jacket titled in maroon. Bookseller’s ticket of Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge to front paste-down. Jacket toned to spine-panel and head of upper-panel. The slightest of shelf-wear to spine-tips, binding otherwise strong and square. Offsetting to end-papers; contents otherwise clean and quite fresh. A near-fine copy in very good jacket. The first British edition of the penultimate section of Pound’s epic sequence The Cantos, which he wrote between 1915 and 1962, and never finished. Pound composed the Rock-Drill sequence while incarcerated for treason charges. Like the whole sequence, the Rock-Drill cantos draw from a wide range of sources and subjects including Confucian doctrine, nineteenth-century American banking history, fertility rites, the Congress of Vienna, English mysticism, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Egyptian mythology, and the Odyssey. £75.00