The Pisan Cantos / Ezra Pound.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Contributor:

Faber and Faber, publisher.

Robert MacLehose & Co., printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Dust jackets (Binding)

Poetry.

Physical Description:

132 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First English edition].

Manufacture:

Glasgow : Printed in Great Britain by R. MacLehose and Company Limited.

Place of Publication:

London : Faber and Faber, [1949]

Notes:

With half-title.

List of author's works on preliminary leaf.

"First published in MCMXLIX ..."--T.p. verso.

"There are eleven cantos of the 'poem of some length' of which we have published the preceding cantos in three instalments. They are numbered from Cantos LXXIV toLXXXIV. Cantos LXXII and LXXIII, which the author has not yet completed or which he is not yet ready to release, are not included."--Dustjacket.

Written while the author was detained in the U. S. Army's Disciplinary Training Center in Pisa in 1945.

In the first impression, pages 104 and 105 occur in the wrong order which should be, as numbered 103, 105, 104, 106.--Cf. Gallup.

Because of Britain's strict libel laws British publication was delayed for a year while a number of omissions and expurgations were made in the text.

Price from dustjacket.

Black cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine.

Winner of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1949.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy is first impression with pages 104 and 105 in the wrong order.

Cited in:

Gallup, A60b

OCLC:

12621845

Publisher Number:

PML 136082 GNR 3593