L’America, Roosevelt e le Cause della Guerra Presente (1944)
A51
Editions
a. First edition
| EZRA POUND | | [in red: L” AMERICA, ROOSEVELT | E LE CAUSE | DELLA GUERRA PRESENTE | [i d/ack:] VENEZIA | CASA EDITRICE DELLA EDIZIONI POPOLARI | 1944-XXII cover-title, 32 pp. 19.4 X 12.2 cm. Heavy buff paper wrappers printed in black and red (as above) on page [i] and in black (with price) on page [iv]; wirestitched. Published early in 1944 at L. 2 as “Biblioteca di Cultura Politica, [1]”; number of copies unknown. In all examined copies the tenth line up on page 16 has, pasted over it, a typed slip of paper, correcting the line to read: “quanto egli sapesse io ero il primo a mettere in-”; according to John Drummond, these slips were typed out by Ezra Pound himself. Most copies have the following corrections in pencil: page 8, line 12 up, “bene” corrected to “bono”; page 17, line 3, date “(1776)” cancelled; page 19, line 3 up, “Sir” deleted; page 22, line 13, “richiede” corrected to “risiede”; and, in some copies, page 23, line 2 up, “sco-” corrected to “co-.” Note: Reprinted, with Oro e lavoro—A52a—and Introduzione alla natura economica degli S. U. A—A53a—as ... Lavoro ed usura: tre saggi ([1954])—A68.
b. First edition in English (1951)
AMERICA, ROOSEVELT | AND THE CAUSES OF | THE PRESENT war|By| ezRa POUND | PETER RUSSELL| 114b Queen’s Gate, London, S. W.7| 1951 17, [1] pp. 1 leaf. 21-5 X 13.8 cm. Stiff cream paper wrappers printed in black and red on page [1] and in black on pages [ii-iv]; wire-stitched. Published late in 1951 at 2s. Gd. as “Money Pamphlets by £, No. 6”; 1000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: Title of original work: L’America, Roosevelt e le cause della guerra presente First published at Venice in 1944 First English edition Translated by John Drummond ... Imprint at foot of page [iv] of wrapper: Printed by Clements & Son (T. W.), Ltd., Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Note: This English translation by John Drummond was reprinted, with excisions, as “America and the Second World War,” in Impact (1960)-—A78—pp. 184-96.
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