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POUND, Ezra.
Cathay. Translations... for the most part from the Chinese of Rihaku, from notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the professors Mori and Ariga.
London, Elkin Mathews, 1915.
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The first of Pound's Chinese translations most of which were subsequently collected in Lustra, Personae and the collected poems. From the library of Edward Wadsworth. Fanny and Edward Wadsworth were both artists in an around the Vorticist movement and friends of both Pound and T.S. Eliot.
First edition, sole impression; 8vo; some spotting to contents; publisher's buff wrappers, titles to front wrapper in black, top inch of backstrip defective, wrappers somewhat toned; very good.
Gallup A9.
First edition, sole impression; 8vo; some spotting to contents; publisher's buff wrappers, titles to front wrapper in black, top inch of backstrip defective, wrappers somewhat toned; very good.
Gallup A9.
Stock code 116396
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Cathay.
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$1,881.00
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$1,881.00
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