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T.S.ELIOT (published anonymously) : Ezra Pound. His Metric and Poetry

Alfred A.Knopf, New York, 1917

First edition of the author's second book, issued anonymously, and never published as a stand-alone volume in the UK (although it was included in his 1965 collection 'To Criticize the Critic'). Slim 8vo. 31pp. Pink paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the upper board. With a portrait frontispiece of Pound by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Spine ends and corner tips a little rubbed, with some fading to the spine. Binding cracked and just a little tender at the first text leaf, and with just a touch of spotting to the rear endpapers. Former owner name partially erased from the tip of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in the original unprinted buff paper dust wrapper, split into two parts at the natural fold, and with several quite lengthy jagged tears and some accompanying creasing. Published in November 1917 as an accompaniment to Pound's Lustra, also issued by Knopf. Gallup A2. "There was a time when it did not seem fitting for me to write a pamphlet . but Ezra was then known only to a few and I was so completely unknown that it seemed more decent that the pamphlet should appear anonymously" - Eliot, 'The Cantos of Ezra Pound' (1933).. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fair

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