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EZRA POUND’S | KENSINGTON | An Exploration | 1885-1913 | [ornamental rule] | PATRICIA HUTCHINS | FABER AND FABER | 24 Russell Square | London

180 pp., incl. illus., diagr., facsim. 12 illus. (incl. ports.) on 4 plates. 22.2 X 14.3 cm. Grey cloth boards stamped in blue and gold on spine; end-papers; top edges stained blue. White dust-jacket printed in yellow and black. Published 11 February 1965 at 30s.; 4500 copies printed. On verso of title-leaft First published in mcmlxv ... Printed in Great Britain by Western Printing Services Limited, Bristol ... “Under a title insisted on by Mr Pound himself, Patricia Hutchins has brought together much hitherto unpublished material from letters, periodicals and interviews ... ” (Dust-jacket) Contains excerpts from letters and notes from Ezra Pound to Patricia Hutchins, 1953 to 1961, pp. 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 37; 40, 44— 45, 48, 55, 57, 58, 59, 68, 69-70, 71, 72, 76, 83, 84, 94, 95, 98, 103-4, 107, 124, 125, 128, 129, 130, 134-5, and 140-1. (A typed letter of 18 Aug. 1957, quoted in part, pp. 18 and 20, is reproduced in facsimile, p. 19.) A letter to Mrs. Elkin Mathews of 1922 is quoted, p. 60. Pound’s printed letter to the Editor in the New Age for 21 Dec. 1911, “On the ‘Decline of Faith””—C29—is reprinted, p. 84, and various brief quotations from uncollected articles appear throughout. Note: This book was published in Chicago, Ill, in May 1965 by the Henry Regnery Company at $5.00.