• First edition of Cathay by Ezra Pound, one of 1000 copies.
  • First edition of Cathay by Ezra Pound, one of 1000 copies.
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POUND, Ezra.

Cathay.

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.

Stock Code 116396

London, Elkin Mathews, 1915.

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one of 1000 copies

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.

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