A Draft of XXX Cantos

Ezra Pound. First American edition. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1933). NAP. No date listed on copyright. Hardcover is in Very Good+ condition. There is a former owner's signature (C. Rockwell, 3d) and bookstore sticker on inside cover and flyleaf. Otherwise, no writing or markings found in this well-preserved copy, 149 pp. One of 1,000 copies printed. Missing dust jacket.  Title: Ezra Pound – A Draft of XXX Cantos (First American Edition, 1933) Description: First American edition of Ezra Pound’s foundational work of modernist poetry, published by Farrar & Rinehart in 1933. One of only 1,000 copies printed. This edition contains a cancel leaf at pages 61–62, and the word "sh-t" as noted in Gallup A31c. Bound in black cloth with silver spine lettering, this copy is in Very Good condition: slight rubbing to the boards, mild foxing to fore-edge, and a faint cock to the binding. Lacks the original dust jacket. Pound’s Cantos stands among the most ambitious poetic projects of the 2