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Ezra Pound | A Close-up | [swelled rule] | by Michael Reck | McGraw-Hill Book Company | New York Toronto London Sydney

xi pp., 1 leaf, 205 pp., 2 blank leaves, incl. front. (facsim.) plates (port., facsims.) 21.8 X 14:7 cm. Grey paper boards with black cloth back stamped in gold on spine and, at lower-right of back cover, with the number 51350; end-papers. White dust-jacket printed in brown, black, and blue (with photograph of Ezra Pound by Boris de Rachewiltz, Autumn 1958, on front). Published 8 September 1967 at $5.95; number of copies unknown. On verso of title-leaf: ... Printed in the United States of America. .. . First Edition 51350

Contains, as frontispiece (p. [ii]), facsimile of manuscript note, written in 1955, from Ezra Pound, introducing Reck to Juan Ram6n Jiménez, and reproductions of two typed letters to Reck, 12 Mar. 1954, on the second and third, and 17 May 1955 on the fourth pages of the plates following page 98. (The note to Jiménez is quoted in part on page 95.) Note: This book was published in London in March 1968 by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. at 36s. Contents as in the American edition, except that the plates follow page 82. An edition, paperbound, was published in New York, Toronto, and Sydney by McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1973 at $2.95 in the series of McGraw-Hill Paperbacks. A Spanish translation, Ezra Pound en primer plano, by Maria Jose Sanchez Carrasco, was published in Barcelona by Ediciones Picazo in June 1976. ,