The Pisan Cantos
by Pound, Ezra
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No dust jacket
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: New Directions, 1948. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/No dust jacket. 8vo, 118pp. Black cloth with silver lettering. VG. Lacking the dustwrapper. The four sections of the dj (chipped) are laid in. Light dampstains at bottom of front/rear covers. First edition of Pound's most important later work, and the most moving portion of his long poem-in-progress, written while in a prison camp near Pisa. *The Pisan Cantos* was awarded the first annual Bollingen Prize for poetry in 1949. One of 1525 copies printed.
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- Bookseller
- ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21116
- Title
- The Pisan Cantos
- Author
- Pound, Ezra
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
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ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
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- Dustwrapper
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- VG
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