Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935)
A41
Editions
a. First edition, signed copies
JEFFERSON | AND/OR | MUSSOLINI | L’IDEA STATALE | FASCISM AS I HAVE SEEN IT | BY | EZRA POUND | Volitionist Economics | STANLEY NOTT | 69 Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square | LONDON
4 leaves, 7-128 pp. 22.3 x 15.2 cm. Orange cloth boards lettered in black on front cover and on spine; end-papers; fore edges untrimmed, bottom edges roughly trimmed. Probably issued in orange dust-jacket printed in black.
Published July 1935 at 21s.; 30 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... First published by Stanley Nott Ltd. 1935 Printed in Great Britain by Western Printing Services Ltd., Bristol Colophon (verso of special half-title-leaf tipped in to precede regular half-title-leaf): Of this edition there are XXX copies numbered and signed by the author of which XXV are for sale. This copy is number [number written in, signed: Ezra Pound]
“The body of this ms. was written and left my hands in February 1933. 40 publishers have refused it. No typescript of mine has been read by so many people or brought me a more interesting correspondence. It is here printed verbatim, unaltered. I had not seen the ms. from the time it left Rapallo till it returned here with the galley proof. It is printed as record of what I saw in February 1933. ...” (Foreword, April 1935, on verso of title-leaf )
b. Unsigned copies
128 pp. Size and binding as for signed copies. Orange dust-jacket printed in black.
Published 30 August 1935 at 6s.; number of copies unknown. Identical with signed copies save that special half-title-leaf is not present.
c. First American edition
JEFFERSON | AND/OR | MUSSOLINI | L’IDEA STATALE | FASCISM AS I HAVE SEEN IT | BY | EZRA POUND | Volitionist Economics | NEW YORK: LIVERIGHT PUBLISHING CORP. | LONDON: STANLEY NOTT
3 leaves, v-xi, 11-128 pp. 22.4 x 15.3 cm. Orange cloth boards lettered in dark blue down the spine; end-papers, top edges stained dark blue, fore edges untrimmed. White dust-jacket printed in blue and black.
Published 24 January 1936 at $2.00; number of copies unknown. On verso of title-leaf: ... First published by Stanley Nott Ltd. 1935 ... Manufactured in the United States of America [pages 11-128 printed by offset from the first edition]
Contains “Letter sent Autumn, 1934, by Ezra Pound to Editor of the Criterion, London [i.e. T. S. Eliot],” pp. v-ix, not included in the English edition. (Reprinted from the Criterion for January 1935—C1130, where it was titled “1934 in the Autumn.”)
Notes: This book was published paperbound in New York in 1970 by Liveright as their Liveright Paperbound Edition L-13 at $1.95; of the edition 507 copies were actually bound in cloth. Pound’s Italian version of this book is Jefferson e Mussolini (1944)—A56.
Content is now editable.