Pound/Joyce (1967)
A88
Editions
a. First edition
POUND [diagonal extending from right to left across two lines] JOYCE | The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, | with Pound’s Essays on Joyce | Edited and with Commentary by Forrest Read | A new directions book [New York, James Laughlin]
vi, 314 pp. 24 x 16.3 cm. Brown cloth boards stamped in gold on spine; endpapers. Yellow dust-jacket printed in brown and black.
Published 15 November 1967 at $10.00; 2900 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf; ... Manufactured in the United States of America. New Directions Books 107 are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 333 Sixth Avenue, New York 10014. First Printing
Contains letters from Ezra Pound to James Joyce (twelve of them reprinted from The Letters of Ezra Pound ({1950])—A64) and these essays: “A Curious History”; “Dubliners and Mr James Joyce”; from “The Non-Existence of Ire- land”; “Mr. James Joyce and the Modern Stage”; “Meditatio”; “James Joyce: At Last the Novel Appears”; “James Joyce and His Critics: Some Classified Com- ments”; “Joyce”; “Ulysses”; “A Serious Play”; “Paris Letter: Ulysses”; “James Joyce et Pécuchet”; “Le Prix Nobel”; from “After Election”, “Past History”; “Monumental” [from Guide to Kulchur]; “James Joyce: To His Memory.” Appen- dix A prints “Letters on Lustra, to Elkin Mathews, 1916”; Appendix C, “Pound’s deletions from Ulysses, ‘Calypso’ episode, 1918.”
Note: The book was published also by New Directions in New York 30 March 1970 at $2.75 as their Paperbook 296, in a first printing of 5050 copies.
b. English issue [(1969])
POUND | [diagonal extending from right to left across two lines] JOYCE | The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, | with Pound’s Essays on Joyce | Edited and with Commentary by Forrest Read | FABER AND FABER | 24 Russell Square - London
vi, 314 pp. 22.3 x 14.5 cm. Blue cloth boards printed in gold on spine; endpapers. White dust-jacket printed in cream, black, red, and green.
Published 10 February 1969 at 70 s.; 2000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: First published in England in memlxviii [sic] ... Printed in Great Britain by John Dickens & Co Ltd Northampton... Contents as in A88a.
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