Introductory Text Book E. P. [Rapallo, 1939] (1939)

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Ezra Pound

[3] pp. 18.9 x 12.7 cm. Printed privately in London by Bonner and Company Limited for gratis distribution by the author to his correspondents and friends, with first copies sent out in March 1939; 500 copies printed. (The type page on page [2] measures 14.8 x 84 cm. and the author’s name on page [3] is set in capital and small-capital letters.)

Consists of quotations from John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and the Constitution of the United States, p. [2], with “Note” by Ezra Pound, p. [3]. Reprinted in various periodicals in 1939 (see Section C) and in Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, eds., Twentieth Century Authors (New York, 1942)—B47—pp. 112-122, and, with What Is Money For? (London, Peter Russell, 1951), as Number 3 of “Money Pamphlets by £.” It is included also, with facsimile reproduction of page [1], in the appendix to the revised edition of Guide to Kulchur ([1952])—Aasc, d—pp. [353]-356, and was reprinted, without the final note, on the verso of an advertisement leaf issued in the late 1950s for the edition of Conficius. The Unwobbling Pivot & The Great Digest in the Square Dollar Series, at least some copies with a typed statement added along the lefthand side: “Lincoln was shot for understanding what Jeff wrote to Crawford in 1816” (see B36a note).

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