Accession number
PML 186690
Creator
Estaunié, Édouard, 1862-1942.
Published
New York : Boni and Liveright, ©1923.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition. Cf. Gallup.
Library's copy lacks dust jacket.
Translation issued by Ezra Pound under the pseudonym Hiram Janus, credit listed on original dust jacket. Cf. Gallup.
"...Pound on 4 January 1922 signed an agreement with Horace Liveright under the terms of which he would translate from French into English 'to the best of his ability and with reasonable promptitude,' such books as Mr. Liveright chose.... It was agreed that Pound would not be required to sign his own name to the translation of any work that he considered 'a disgrace to humanity or too imbecile to be borne.'" Cf. Gallup.
Library's copy housed in red cloth clamshell box.
Library's copy lacks dust jacket.
Translation issued by Ezra Pound under the pseudonym Hiram Janus, credit listed on original dust jacket. Cf. Gallup.
"...Pound on 4 January 1922 signed an agreement with Horace Liveright under the terms of which he would translate from French into English 'to the best of his ability and with reasonable promptitude,' such books as Mr. Liveright chose.... It was agreed that Pound would not be required to sign his own name to the translation of any work that he considered 'a disgrace to humanity or too imbecile to be borne.'" Cf. Gallup.
Library's copy housed in red cloth clamshell box.
Description
346 pages ; 20 cm
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Publisher's black cloth lettered in gray with decorative endpapers.
Classification
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