The Fifth Decad of Cantos (1937)

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Ezra Pound

Editions

a. First edition

EZRA POUND | THE FIFTH | DECAD OF | CANTOS | [device] | NEW DIRECTIONS | Norfolk Connecticut [James Laughlin]

Collation, size, binding, and dust-jacket as in the first issue. Issued Summer 1940 at $1.50; 419 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).

b. First American edition, first issue

EZRA POUND | THE FIFTH | DECAD OF | CANTOS | [device] | NEW DIRECTIONS | Norfolk Connecticut [James Laughlin]

Collation, size, binding, and dust-jacket as in the first issue. Issued Summer 1940 at $1.50; 419 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. Second issue ([1940])

EZRA POUND | THE FIFTH | DECAD OF | CANTOS | [device] | NEW DIRECTIONS | Norfolk Connecticut [James Laughlin]

Collation, size, binding, and dust-jacket as in the first issue. Issued Summer 1940 at $1.50; 419 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).

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