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The | Pound | Era | [drawing by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska] | By HUGH KENNER | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS | BERKELEY AND LOS ANGELES 1971

1 blank leaf, xiv, 606 pp., 1 blank leaf, incl. illus., ports., facsims. 23.4 x 15.8 cm. Blue cloth boards stamped in gold on front cover and down the spine. White dust-jacket printed in black and red.

Published 27 March 1972 at $14.95; 3500 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... Printed in the United States of America Designed by Dave Comstock.

Contains brief quotations from uncollected articles, and from miscellaneous unpublished material by Ezra Pound, notably the following: manuscript notes for “I Vecchii,” p. 7; conversation, Sept. 1952 (on T. S. Eliot), p. 12; manuscript note, 1950, on fly-leaf of the Analects—A65—p. 103; notes for an unpublished essay, “L’uomo nel ideogramma,” including four lines of verse beginning “Poetry speaks phallic direction,” p. 104; letters to Harriet Monroe, 17 Sept. 1915 (on H.D.), p. 177, Dec. 1918 and 14 Apr. 1919, p. 286; letters to Margaret Anderson, 17 Nov. 1917, p. 178, 22 June 1917, p. 242, 3 Apr. 1917, p. 281, 17 May 1917, p. 284, 7 July 1918, p. 296; lines from “Canto 120,” pp. 266 and 379; two brief telegrams, 20 and 22 Dec. 1915, and a letter to John Quinn, May 1916, p. 281; unused detail for Canto LXXXIV, p. 515; variant version of “Baijo’s Poem in the Koshigen,” p. 545; and note on fly-leaf of Morrison’s Chinese Dictionary, p. 569.

Note: This book was published in London in July 1972 by Faber and Faber at £8.50. Contents as in first edition.