First edition

EP to LU | NINE LETTERS WRITTEN | TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER BY | Ezra Pound | EDITED By J. A. Rospins | | Indiana University Press / 1963 | Bloomington

48 pp., incl. facsims. 21 x 13.6 cm. Brown paper boards stamped in blue on both covers and down the spine; end-papers. Plain acetate dust-jacket. Published 29 July 1963 at $6.00, 1539 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... Manufactured in the United States of America Notes: Letter V is an autobiographical summary communicated to Louis Untermeyer in 1930. On page [16] is reproduced the first page of Ezra Pound’s original typescript, titled and (incorrectly) dated in Louis Untermeyer’s hand: “Ezra Pound to LU—a statement ‘in order to put the facts straight. Rapallo. 1932.” It was printed, with the incorrect date (and with the title erroneously identified as being “in Pound’s hand”), in Paris Review for Summer/Fall 1962—C1888— as “An Autobiographical Outline (Written for Louis Untermeyer).” For separate edition see A103. Letter VI, 1 March [1930], incorporates Pound’s translation of Heine’s “Diese 2 > P Damen,” in three 4~line stanzas.