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POUND, Ezra. Jefferson and/or Mussolini. London: Western Printing Services for Stanley Nott, 1935. 8° (217 x 143mm). (Scattered light spotting.) Original orange cloth, upper board and spine lettered in black, dustwrapper (endpapers lightly browned, dustwrapper with small chips and tears at edges and a little faded on spine). FIRST EDITION. Gallup Pound (1983) A41b.
E. POUND. Jefferson and/or Mussolini. New York and London: Liveright Publishing Corp. and Stanley Nott, 1936. 8° (218 x 142mm). (Light browning.) Original orange cloth, the spine lettered in black, dustwrapper (endpapers a little browned, corners very lightly rubbed, small mark at foot of spine, dustwrapper torn with losses). Provenance: Ph. Park (presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'Ph Park , borrowed it , forever , Ezra Pound , [?]S L-Z'). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY POUND. The first American edition contains 'Letter sent Autumn, 1934, by Ezra Pound to Editor of the Criterion, London [i.e. T.S. Eliot]' (pp.v-ix), which was not included in the first edition. Gallup Pound (1983) A41c.
FIRST ENGLISH AND FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, THE LATTER A PRESENTATION COPY. (2)
E. POUND. Jefferson and/or Mussolini. New York and London: Liveright Publishing Corp. and Stanley Nott, 1936. 8° (218 x 142mm). (Light browning.) Original orange cloth, the spine lettered in black, dustwrapper (endpapers a little browned, corners very lightly rubbed, small mark at foot of spine, dustwrapper torn with losses). Provenance: Ph. Park (presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'Ph Park , borrowed it , forever , Ezra Pound , [?]S L-Z'). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY POUND. The first American edition contains 'Letter sent Autumn, 1934, by Ezra Pound to Editor of the Criterion, London [i.e. T.S. Eliot]' (pp.v-ix), which was not included in the first edition. Gallup Pound (1983) A41c.
FIRST ENGLISH AND FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, THE LATTER A PRESENTATION COPY. (2)
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