The Fifth Decad of Cantos (1937)
A43
Editions
a. First edition
EZRA POUND | THE FIFTH DECAD OF | CANTOS | | FABER & FABER | LONDON 59 1 blank leaf, 2 leaves, 7-53 pp., 1 blank leaf. 20-9 X 15-2 cm. Black cloth boards lettered in gold down the spine; end-papers; fore edges roughly trimmed, bottom edges untrimmed. Rose dust-jacket printed in black and blue. Published 3 June 1937 at 6s.; 1012 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: First published in June Mcmxxxvii ... Printed in Great Britain by R. MACLEHOSE and Company Limited The University Press Glasgow ... Contents: Cantos XLII-LI
b. First American edition, first issue
EZRA POUND | THE FIFTH | DECAD OF | CANTOS | [ornament] | FARRAR & RINEHART | INCORPORATED | NEW YORK * TORONTO 2 leaves, 46 pp., 3 blank leaves. 22.5 X 15'6 cm. Black cloth boards stamped in silver on spine; end-papers. Tan dust-jacket printed in blue and black. Published 29 November 1937 at $1.50; 750 copies printed (of which 419 were used for the second issue in 1940). On verso of title-leaf: |Publishers monogram]... Printed in the United States of America by J.J. Little and Ives Company, New York... The misprint “FONTANELLE” for “FONTENELLE” in the list of books “by Ezra Pound” on the recto of the half-title-leaf was not corrected.
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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