Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII (1969)
A91
Editions
a. First edition
EZRA POUND | DRAFTS & FRAGMENTS | OF CANTOS CX-CXVII | A NEW DIRECTIONS BOOK
32 pp.; 20.8 x 14 cm. Black cloth boards stamped in blind on front cover and in silver down the spine; end-papers. White dust-jacket printed all-over in buff, and in blue. Published 26 April 1969 at $3.95; 3000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... 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... Dedication on page [1]: To Olga Rudge
Contents: Canto CX—Notes for Canto CXI—From Canto CXII—Canto CXIII— Canto CXIV—From Canto CXV—Canto CXV1—Fragments of Cantos (“Addendum for Canto C, “The Evil is Usury” [formerly “Canto Proceeding (LXXII circa)”]; “Now sun rises in Ram sign”; “Notes for Canto CXVII et seq.: ‘For the blue flash and the moments’, ‘M’amour, m’amour, ‘La faillite de Francois Bernouard’”)
b. English issue ([1970])
EZRA POUND DRAFTS & FRAGMENTS | OF CANTOS CX—CXVII | FABER AND FABER | LONDON
32 pp. 22.3 X 14.1 cm. Black cloth boards stamped in gold down the spine; off-white end-papers. Buff dust-jacket printed in black, red, and grey. Published 23 February 1970 at 20 s.; 2000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: First published in England in 1970 ... Printed in Great Britain by Latimer Trend & Co. Ltd Whitstable . . . Contents as in A91a.
c. Limited edition, copies for sale in the United States
[In black:] EZRA POUND | [in red:] DRAFTS & FRAGMENTS OF CANTOS | CX-CXVII | [in black:] New Directions & The Stone Wall Press [Iowa City, Iowa, K. K. Merker]
5 blank leaves, 5 leaves, 9-40 pp., 1 leaf, 3 blank leaves. 32.2 X 22:5 cm. Red cloth boards with white paper label on spine printed in black; first and final blank leaves pasted down as end-papers; edges untrimmed. Dark grey card- board box with paper label printed in black on side. Published 30 October 1969 at $100.00; 210 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 333 Sixth Avenue, New York 10014 ... Colophon (recto of leaf following page 40): This edition ... was printed on the hand-press by K. K. Merker, The Stone Wall Press, lowa City, in Romanée type on Umbria paper. The edition consists of 310 copies: Numbers 1 to 200 for New Directions, New York; Numbers 201 to 300 for Faber and Faber Ltd, London; Numbers 301 to 310 for The Stone Wall Press. All copies are signed by the author. December mpccccixvitt [signed in blue ink by Ezra Pound and numbered in ink, followed by device printed in red | Contents as in the first edition. A slip, 11-1 X 15.2 cm., listing “Errata” in 8 lines, is laid in.
d. Copies for sale in England ([1970])
Identical with the American copies save for imprint (Faber & Faber : 24 Russell Square : London | The Stone Wall Press : Iowa City) and verso of title-leaf. Published February 1970 at £ 42.00; 100 copies printed.
Content is now editable.