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The Pisan Cantos
by Pound, Ezra
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. (1937). First Edition. Hardcover. Some pencil marginalia. Some foxing. Bookseller's label on front endpaper, Foyles, Cape Town. Dust-jacket spine with large chips, about half of dust-jacket spine is present. 25mm chips to upper corner of front panel and rear panel of dust-jacket. Small adhesive tape repair at tail of dust-jacket spine on reverse side. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First UK edition. 132 pages. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 204 x 141mm. Poetry. The Pisan Cantos are numbered LXXIV to LXXXIV. "The title of this new section of the poem referes to Mr. Pound's detention, after the arrival in northern Italy of the armies of liberation by the American military authorities at a camp near Pisa: a brief peiod in the author's life to which the reader will detect frequent allusions in the text." - from dust-jacket blurb. An edition of 1,976 copies. [Reference: Gallup A60b] .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24050
- Title
- The Pisan Cantos
- Author
- Pound, Ezra
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1937)
- Keywords
- English Literature
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Gilt
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- Tail
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