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Lustra of Ezra Pound, with earlier poems.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 P8652 916l 1917
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
- Standardized Title:
- Lustra
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese poetry--Translations into English.
- Chinese poetry.
- English poetry--Translations, Chinese.
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Foster, Harvey Nathan (former owner) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 202 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- [First America ed, first impression.].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : For Private Circulation, October 1917.
- Contents:
- Lustra of Ezra Pound
- Cathay
- Poems published before 1911
- Three Cantos.
- Notes:
- "Sixty Copies Printed."
- "Published October 1917."
- Privately printed American edition has portrait of Pound by Gaudier-Brzeska and poem "The Temperament" on p. 120.
- "Cathay, for the most part from the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the Professors Mori and Ariga," p. [71]-95.
- Includes bibliographical note by John Quinn: [4] p. at end.
- Black cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy is no. 14.
- Culture Class Collection copy has typed name of Harvey Nathan Foster.
- OCLC:
- 8247947
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