Selected Cantos (1967)
A89
Editions
a. First edition of this selection
SELECTED CANTOS | OF EZRA POUND | FABER & FABER | LONDON 121 pp., 3 blank leaves. 19-8 X 13 cm. Heavy white paper wrappers printed in green, red, arid black on page and down the spine, and in black on pages . Published 7 December 1967 at 7s. 6d. in the series “Faber paper covered Editions”; 36,000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: This selection first published in memlxvii ... Printed in Great Britain by Latimer Trend & Co Ltd Whitstable Dedication on page [5]; To Olga Rudge “Tempus loquendi” 108 Contains “Foreword” by Ezra Pound, dated 20 October 1966, p. 9, and Cantos I, IV, IX, XIU, XIV, XVI, XXXI, from XXXVI, XLII (omitting first eight lines), from XLII, XLIV, XLV, from LII, LI, from LXII, LXXXI, LXXXIV, from LXXXV, from LXXXVIII, XCV, from XCIX, from CV, from CVIIIL, and from CIX..On page [#] of wrapper: “This selection ... was made by Ezra Pound himself in September 1965 [ée. 1966]. It contains those complete Cantos (and short passages from a few others) that he himself considers to provide the best introduction to the whole work for those coming to it for the first time...” CPUBLISHER’s Note,” page [6], gives date of selection correctly as September 1966.)
b. American issue ([1970])
SELECTED CANTOS | OF EZRA POUND | A NEW DIRECTIONS BOOK [New York, James Laughlin] 4 leaves, 119 pp. 20.3 X 13.6 cm. Heavy white paper wrappers printed in grey and black on page (with photograph of the author, about 1938, by James Angleton), and in black on page [iv] and down the spine. Published 21 October 1970 at $1.95 as New Directions Paperbook 304; 7000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... Typographic design by Giovanni Mardersteig Manufactured in the United States of America New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 333 Sixth Avenue, New York 10014 Contents as in A8ga, with additions. “The basic selection for this book was made by Ezra Pound in September, 1966 ... In this American edition . . . in the style of the Mardersteig first printings of The Pisan Cantos, Section Rock-Drill and Thrones, the more compressed setting making a few extra pages available, the following passages were added by the publisher: 1. Canto L//. The section based on Lii Shih’s Spring and Autumn was completed by the addition of 78 lines, to the end of the Canto. 2. The first 107 lines of Canto LXXXII//. 3. The fragment of Canto CXV and Canto CXVI from Drafis & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII which were first published in book form in 1969.” (“Publisher’s Note,” signed J[ames]. L[aughlin]., p. 2.) Pound’s “Foreword” is on page 1.
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