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POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972. Lustra. London: Elkin Mathews, [1916]. image 1
POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972. Lustra. London: Elkin Mathews, [1916]. image 2
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POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972.
Lustra. London: Elkin Mathews, [1916].

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POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972.

Lustra. London: Elkin Mathews, [1916].
8vo. Photogravure portrait frontispiece by Alvin Langdon Coburn, "EP" device designed by Edmund Dulac to title page. Publisher's tan cloth, lettered in blue, uncut and unopened, custom cloth chemise and slipcase, with morocco title label, minor soiling.
Provenance: Jonathan Goodwin (his sale, Sotheby's New York, March 29, 1977, lot 231).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, SIGNED BY POUND IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION, dated "Oct 1916" in pencil, number 45 of 200 unabridged copies, hand-numbered by pound to colophon on title page. After a dispute with his publisher Elkin Mathews over sexually charged language, Lustra was printed in an edition of 200 copies containing an "unabridged" text in September 1916; the "abridged" trade edition was 800 copies. Cyril Connolly called Lustra Pound's "first volume of truly modern work" ("The Break-Through in Modern Verse," London Magazine, 1961). Gallup A11a; Connolly Modern Movement 35.

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