Eleven New Cantos XXXI-XLI (1934)
A37
Editions
a. First edition, first issue
ELEVEN | NEW | CANTOS | xxxI-xL1| BY EZRA POUND | | FARRAR & RINEHART | INCORPORATED | PUBLISHERS NEW YORK 2 leaves, 56 pp., 2 blank leaves. 22-4 X 15:8 cm. Black cloth boards lettered in silver down the spine; end-papers. Blue dust-jacket printed in blue and black. Published 8 October 1934 at $1.50; 1500 copies printed (of which 500 copies were used for the second issue in 1940). On verso of title-leaf: (Publisher's monogram]... Printed in the United States of America by J. J. Little and Ives Company, New York... The misprint in the list of books “by Ezra Pound” facing the title-page, “FONTANELLE” for “FONTENELLE,” was not corrected. Note: The first 84 lines of Canto XXXVI are Pound’s revised English version of Cavalcanti’s canzone “Donna mi prega.”
b. Second issue ([1940])
ELEVEN | New | canTos | xxx1-x11| By Ezra Pound | [device] | New Directions | Norfolk Connecticut [James Laughlin] Collation, size, binding, and dust-jacket as in first issue. Issued Summer 1940 at $1.50; 500 copies of the first issue, purchased from Farrar and Rinehart and issued by New Directions with a cancel title-leaf (with title-page as above).
c. First English edition ({1935])
A DRAFT OF CANTOS XXXI-XLI BY | EZRA POUND | LONDON FABER & FABER LTD | 24 RUSSELL SQUARE 62 pp., 1 blank leaf. 21-1 X 15 cm. Black cloth boards lettered in gold down the spine; end-papers; fore and bottom edges roughly trimmed. Mauve dust- jacket printed in red. 53 Published 14 March 1935 at 6s; 1500 copies printed (of which 300 were bombed during the Second World War). On verso of title-leaf: First published in March MCMXXXV ... Printed in Great Britain by R. MACLEHOSE and Company Limited The University Press Glasgow ...
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