First edition

EZRA POUND | Letters to Ibbotson, 1935-1952 | Edited | by | Vittoria I. Mondolfo and Margaret Hurley | Introduction | by | Walter Pilkington | National Poetry Foundation | University of Maine | Orono, Maine 123 3 leaves, 145 pp., incl. illus., facsims. 23-6 X 159 cm. Red cloth boards stamped in gold on spine; end-papers. White dust-jacket printed in orange and black Gwith reproduction on front of pencil sketch of Pound, 4 August 1970, by Ilse Engel). Published 21 May 1979 at $12.95 in the publisher’s “Ezra Pound Scholarship Series ”; 400 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: Limited Edition: 400 Printed at the University of Maine Press . . . An “Errata” slip, 6.5 X 15+1 cm., supplying footnotes omitted on page 91, was loosely inserted. An edition of the letters from Pound to Joseph Darling Ibbotson (1869-1952), Professor of English Literature, Anglo-Saxon, and Hebrew, and Librarian at Hamilton College, under whom Pound studied during his undergraduate years at Hamilton, in 1903-1905. The original letters are in the Hamilton College Library. The transcript of each of the 35 letters from Pound and one letter from Dorothy Pound (6 March 1937) is followed by a reproduction of the letter. Included also are reproduction of a printed announcement of Rapallo concerts for 3 March-25 April [1935] and reproduction and transcript of a printed program for the concert of 3 and 18 February [1937].