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POUND, EZRA. Part of Canto XX. [n.p., New York?] February 1927. Broadside, quarto, printed in three columns, some slight nicks; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, COPYRIGHT ISSUE, ONE OF 25 COPIES, the first appearance in print of this part of Canto XX (here printed as prose). "In an attempt to secure copyright in the United States for the first number of the Exile, a small number of copies, but at least 25 -- were printed...The American copyright was not granted on the grounds that the submitted broadside was neither a periodical nor a book..." -- Gallup C688.