POUND, EZRA. Cantos LII-LXXI. London: Faber & Faber [1940]. 8vo, original black cloth, unopened, endpapers a trifle foxed, dust jacket; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies, PRESENTATION COPY TO PEARL BUCK, inscribed by Pound on the front free endpaper: "P.B. cordial saluti E.P. 'dreary documentation' sez the 'Times' of London"; on p. 18, where two Chinese pictograms are printed upside down, Pound has written in pencil: "These printers. It was right side up in the proofs." Cantos LII-LXI deal with Chinese civilization, making this an appropriate book for presentation to Pearl Buck; cantos LXII-LXXI are the John Adams cantos. Gallup A47a. Fine. With Pearl Buck book label signed by her daughter on inside rear cover.

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POUND, EZRA. Cantos LII-LXXI. London: Faber & Faber [1940]. 8vo, original black cloth, unopened, endpapers a trifle foxed, dust jacket; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies, PRESENTATION COPY TO PEARL BUCK, inscribed by Pound on the front free endpaper: "P.B. cordial saluti E.P. 'dreary documentation' sez the 'Times' of London"; on p. 18, where two Chinese pictograms are printed upside down, Pound has written in pencil: "These printers. It was right side up in the proofs." Cantos LII-LXI deal with Chinese civilization, making this an appropriate book for presentation to Pearl Buck; cantos LXII-LXXI are the John Adams cantos. Gallup A47a. Fine. With Pearl Buck book label signed by her daughter on inside rear cover.