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POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972. Seventy Cantos. London: Faber & Faber, [1950]. image 1
POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972. Seventy Cantos. London: Faber & Faber, [1950]. image 2
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POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972.
Seventy Cantos. London: Faber & Faber, [1950].

4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
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POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972.

Seventy Cantos. London: Faber & Faber, [1950].
Original black cloth, spine gilt-lettered; dust jacket. Jacket spine panel lightly sunned, 2 short edge-tears to upper panel, light wear to spine panel ends, volume fine.
Provenance: T.S. ELIOT, 1888-1965 (presentation inscription); to Elisabeth Jungmann, later Lady Beerbohm, 1894-1958.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, A LOVELY COPY SIGNED BY T.S. ELIOT, LINKING PROBABLY THE TWO MOST PROMINENT POETS OF THE 20TH CENTURY AND CERTAINLY THE TWO MOST INFLUENTIAL EDITORS OF POETRY. T.S. Eliot once stated that Pound "is more responsible for the twentieth-century revolution in poetry than is any other individual" (introduction to the Literary Essays of Ezra Pound). This volume also encapsulates a touching turn and turn about in editorship. Pound was an early advocate for Eliot's work: he urged the publication of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and he himself edited The Wasteland for the first edition in 1922. Eliot edited the present volume during his long tenure at Faber & Faber.
Elisabeth Jungmann in 1950 was Max Beerbohm's secretary, living in Genoa, and a neighbor of Ezra Pound. Gallup A61b.

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