Item #2071 From Syria. The Worksheets, Proofs, and Text. Ezra Pound.

From Syria. The Worksheets, Proofs, and Text

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1981. First edition. 8, [28] pp. Full black cloth, printed paper label on spine. Edited with an introduction by Robin Skelton. An adaptation of a Provençal poem by the troubadour Peire Bremon. The adaptation was published in Pound's first two editions of Personae (1909 and 1913) but was dropped from all later anthologies. Contains facsimiles of the first, second, and third drafts; the first and second proofs (two copies of each); and the first edition of the poem. Gallup A106, noting 250 copies printed. Very slight sunning to board edges, else fine. Item #2071

Price: $125.00

See all items by