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POUND, Ezra (1885–1972). A Draft of XXX Cantos. London: Faber & Faber, [1933].
8vo. Original black cloth, gilt–lettered spine (small spot of sticker residue on ffep); original unclipped printed dust jacket (extremes a bit sunned, spine panel heavily chipped with losses and separation along joints, small stains to rear panel). Provenance: Marcia Henry (bookplate).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, INSCRIBED BY POUND, possibly to John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950). Fletcher, an aspiring young poet in London in 1909, rose to fame among poetry circles after Pound published an encouraging review of Fletcher’s early volumes in the vanguard American magazine Poetry, “placing him firmly in the centre of the modernist aesthetic” (Bryony Randall, Literary London Society). Gallup A31d.