Edition: 2nd Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1956
Description: Very Good-/Very Good- Margin pencil notes thruout. Hardcover states second printing on the copyright page, not sure of exact date but copyright is 1956 while the congress number suggests 1965. Dustjacket has wear and creases, in mylar, text has fair amount of pencil margin notes thruout. read more
Description: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; New Directions; 1956; Hardcover; Light soiling to top edge. Slight rubbing at extremities of spine. Light rubbing, scratching and some edgewear with a few closed tears to dust jacket. Text block is clean and tight. Second printing.; 8vo; 550 pp. read more
Edition: revised edition
Binding: paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780571048984ISBN:0571048986
Description: Very Good throughout in rubbed covers. 8vo. 802pp. Faber edition of Pound's Cantos, being the revised collected edition (Cantos 1-117), containing a draft of thirty cantos (1930), eleven new cantos (1934), the fifth decad of cantos (1937), cantos lii-lxxi (1940), the Pisan cantos (1948), section: rock-drill de los cantares (1955), thrones de los cantares (1959), and drafts and fragments of cantos (1969); this is the Faber paper edition which resembles a red brick; this copy has some light ... read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Flyleaf missing Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions, New York
Date Published: (1956)
Description: First edition. Near fine with light edgewear along the bottom edge, in a very good dustwrapper with scuffing along the edges of the spine and corners, rear panel is soiled. read more
Edition: 1st Edition, 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A New Directions Book, NY
Date Published: 1956
Description: Very Good+ in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Copy has very slight shelfwear rubbing, fep appears to have been removed, as a very neat and narrow edge is visible along the hinge, volume is clean and tight, unmarked, dj has shelfwear with rubbing nicks, price clipped, tiny edge stain only visible from inside dj. Epic poem the subject of innumerable critical battles, it is unique in contemporary literature. The Cantos are a "poem containing history"; it is their purpose to give the true ... read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions, New York
Date Published: (1965)
Description: First of this edition, the second American collected edition of Pound's Cantos. Touch of wear to head of tail of spine else fine in near fine jacket with scuffing to the spine and minor wear to the top edge. One of 3000 copies printed. read more
Description: Good; Collectible. 1956 New Directions hard cover 1st edition 2nd printing Cantos (1-95)-owner's name and nameplate inside cover-no dust jacket minor wear to cover-minor staining to page edge-minor underlining and note taking-otherwise binding strong contents fine read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Date Published: 1964
Description: Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, dust jacket. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, an excellent copy. “This new edition of the Cantos contains all that have been published in book form. To the previous volume have now been added Section: Rock-Drill (Cantos 85-95) and Thrones (Cantos 96-109). ” Later news clippings and a typed item, some related to Pound, included. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions Books, New York
Date Published: 1948
Description: Fair in Missing jacket. 7 1/2" h X 5" W. This volume contains "A Draft of XXX Cantos", "Eleven New Cantos", "The Fifth Decad of Cantos" and "Cantos LII-LXXI". Library copy, usual markings. Dust jacket missing. Inside cover discoloured. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: June, 1996
ISBN-13:9780811213264ISBN:0811213269
Description: Good. Book Description 1st paper edtn, incl English tr of Canto LXXII Language Notes Text: Dutch, English (translation)--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.  See all Editorial Reviews one pg of marginalia, crease on spine, otherwise clean & unmarked pp. 824pp. read more
"Ezra Pound has understandably had a bad press with his fascist leanings and eventual descent into madness. But so has Wagner. One has to separate the man from the work sometimes, and his poetry although often opaque to the point of unintelligibility has for me some flashes of beauty and insight. He's full of obscure allusions to the Classics which is a pain at times. Eliot does that as well, and sometimes you can't decide whether he's just showing off or has a valid association to make. Plenty of people admire the Cantos, anyway, so I thought I'd give them a try, and some of them are good where I can understand them, others I feel like giving up on."
"Difficult, difficult read. It is also a work of genius. Demented genius at that. Imagine Pound living in an steel cage, writing under the glare of floodlights and open hostility. Certainly not a nice man, but also not an animal. There is no Emily Dickinson to be found here..."
"A great and wonderful book, though a bit hard to read after the "Pisan Cantos". It's one of those either you'll like it or you won't. But if you do read it, be prepared for a lot of challenging parts."
"Probably one of the most maddening, frustrating books of poetry ever written. To read this is to swim in a million allusions, hardly ever grounded. Plus, Pound never finished it. But, page by page, his mastery of language is most apparent."
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