[Rarebooks] FS: Hours Press Ezra Pound: A DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS, 1930, 1/200

[Charles Agvent]

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             POUND,  Ezra. A DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS. Paris: Hours  Press
          1930. First  Limited.  Original orange-lettered  beige  linen
          cloth with  woodcut initials after Dorothy Shakespear  Pound.
          Gallup  A31a.  Copy  #95 of 200 numbered copies (of  a  total
          edition  of 212) printed on Canson-Mongolfier Soleil velin M.
          R. V. Paper.  "These  Cantos,  the first half of  which  were
          published  in 1925, represent the best work in Pound's  'poem
          of some  length'  which is still in progress. There are  more
          lyrics  and  fewer chunks of prose than in the later, not  so
          many economic  propositions and ideograms, and some beautiful
          passages   on  the  Homeric   world  and  renaissance  Italy"
          (Connolly,  The Modern Movement 66). An ex-library copy  from
          Miss Porter's  School  in Farmington, CT with  their  library
          bookplate  on  the front pastedown noting the book as a  gift
          of Miss  Emily Hale. The only other markings are a very faint
          number  on the title page, an ink number at the bottom margin
          of one  text page and on the rear pastedown which also has an
          adhesive  remnant from a pocket holder, and an ink number  at
          the heel  of  the  spine which, as usual, has  the  lettering
          faded.  A key title of twentieth-century poetry. A Very  Good
          copy of a scarce and important book.                 $1000.00

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