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The Pisan cantos / Ezra Pound.

Accession number
PML 186749
Creator
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Published
London : Faber and Faber, 1949.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First English edition. Cf. Gallup.
Library's copy housed in red cloth clamshell box.
A number of omissions and expurgations were introduced in the text differentiating from the American edition ... "buggering" (page 46, line 15 of the American edition) on page 53, line 3 up, was replaced with "b........" ... the name "Maritain" (page 50, line 9 up ... in the American edition) on page 58, line 13 up ..., was replaced with "M......." [etc.]--Cf. Gallup.
No. 74-84 of Cantos.
"First published in mcmxlix"--Title page verso.
Description
132 pages : music, facsimile ; 23 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on half title page: M V. E., Ezra Pound, "O man my pin-up".
Provenance
Bookplate of Vyvyan Edwards; Carter Burden.
Binding
Black cloth with typographic dust jacket.
Classification
Department