First edition

ENRICO PEA | MOSCARDINO | translated by | EZRA POUND | | ALL?INSEGNA DEL PESCE D’ORO | MILANO * MCMLVI (Vanni Scheiwiller]

1 blank leaf, 81, pp., 1 leaf, 1 blank leaf. 18.2 x 12.5 cm. (wrappers); 17.8 x 12.2 cm. (sheets). Grey paper wrappers, folded over stiff white blanks, printed in black on page [i] and up the spine.

Published February 1956 at L. 1000; 1000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... This edition is published by arrangement with New Directions, New York Printed in Italy Colophon (page [84]): Questa edizione curata da Vanni Scheiwiller ...@ stata impressa dalla Stamperia Valdonega di Verona in 1000 esemplari numerati I’8 Febbraio Mcmtv1 Esemplare N. [number written in]

Reprinted from New Directions, New York, 15 ([1955]) pp. 86-131—C1742. This is Ezra Pound’s translation, made in June and July 1941, of the first volume, Moscardino (first published in Milan in 1922), of Enrico Pea’s four-volume novel, // romanzo di Moscardino. It contains an introductory note by Enrico Pea, pp. 3-6, and a list of “Books by Enrico Pea,” pp. 81-[82].