Selected Prose 1909-1965 (1973)
A93
Editions
a. First edition
Selected Prose | 1909-1965 | EZRA POUND | Edited, with an Introduction by William Cookson | FABER AND FABER | LONDON 1 blank leaf, 2 leaves, 3-444 pp. 22.4 X 14.5 em. Black cloth boards stamped in blue and gold on spine; end-papers. White dust-jacket printed in black, tan, and blue. Published 29 January 1973 at £ 6.00; 2500 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: First published in 1973 ... Printed in Great Britain by Western Printing Services Ltd, Bristol... Contents: Foreword, by Ezra Pound, dated Venice, 4 July 1972—Introduction —part ONE: I GATHER THE LIMBS OF osiris [C26, 28, 32, 35, 41, and 42, omutting translations available in The Translations of Ezra Pound|\— PART TWO: RELIGIO: Religio or The Child’s Guide to Knowledge—Axiomata— Credo—Terra Italica—Ecclesiastical History—On the Degrees of Honesty in Various Occidental Religions—Religio—Statues of Gods—Deus est amor— Quotations from Richard of St. Victor [from B68]—part THREE: The Treatise on Harmony—part FOUR: CONFUCIUS AND MENCIUS: Immediate Need of Confucius—Mang Tsze—parr Five: AMERICA: What I Feel abour Walt Whitman— The Jefferson-Adams Letters as a Shrine, and a Monument—Introductory TEXTBOOK—National Culture, A Manifesto 1938—An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the United States—PART SIX: CIVILISATION, MONEY AND HISTORY: Provincialism the Enemy-——Kublai Khan and His Currency—Probari ratio—Economic Democracy—Definitions [Etc—C675]—The State [from C689]—Prolegomena |C693]—Bureaucracy the Fail of Jehovah [complete]—Peace—The City— Murder by Capital—ABC of Economics—John Buchan’s Cromwell ... —History and Ignorance—Banks [from Social Credit]—The Individual in His Milieu— Values [from “Demarcations”’—C1387] For a New Paideuma—W hat /s Money For?—Freedom de facto—A Visiting Card—Gold and Work—Sovereignty—Del Mar—Feasible Justice [from “Destruction by Taxation” in Impace|—Gists [from Impact|—PART SEVEN: THE ART OF POETRY: The Wisdom of Poetry—The Approach to Paris [from IV and V]—Affirmations [IV]: As for Imagisme—Beddoes and Chronology—Landor—Prefatio aut cimicium tumulus—PART EIGHT: contemporaries: The Divine Mystery—Allen Upward Serious—Remy de Gourmont [[-II]—Marianne Moore and Mina Loy—Wyndham Lewis at the Goupil—Hudson: Poet Strayed into Science—Jean Cocteau Sociologist— Obituary: A. R. Orage [“He Pulled His Weight” |—In the Wounds: (Memoriam A.R. Orage)—D’Artagnan Twenty Years After—Ford Madox (Hueffer) Ford; Obit—For T. S. Eliot]. 113 Note: The book was also published by Faber and Faber in London 2 May 1978 at £ 3.50 in their series of Faber Paperbacks, in a first impression of 8000 copies.
b. First American edition ()
Selected Prose | 1909-1965 | EZRA POUND | Edited, with an Introduction by William Cookson | 4 NEW DIRECTIONS BOOK [New York, James Laughlin] 4 leaves, 7-475 pp., 1 blank leaf. 21 X 14.5 cm. Yellow cloth boards stamped in black on spine; end-papers. White dust-jacket printed in black. Published 13 June +73 at $15.00; 250 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... Manufactured in the United States of America First published clothbound ... in 1973 ... New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 333 Sixth Avenue, New York 10014 Contents as in Ag3a, except for the omission of “Statues of Gods” (from Part Two) and “The Treatise on Harmony” (Part Three), and the addition of “Patria Mia” (as Part Four). A leaf of errata (reproduced from type-written copy) is laid in. Note: This book was also published by New Directions in New York 28 April 1975 at $4.75 as their Paperbook 396, in a first printing of 3990 copies.
Content is now editable.