ANNOUNCING SIXTEEN CANTOS OF EZRA POUND
Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924. First Edition. Single Sheet folded in half. In Very Good condition. Prospectus advertising the Three Mountains Press's upcoming A Draft of XVI Cantos of Ezra Pound, printed on a half-sheet of Roma paper. One side of the sheet contains the beginning of the fourth canto (p. [13] in the complete work) as a specimen; the reverse side of the sheet contains information on Pound, the poem, the publication, and subscription rates. Sheet has deckled edges, lightly soiled and foxed with a water damage stain in the bottom fore corner and along the fore edge. SH consignment. Shelved in Case 0.
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Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $1,500
NOTES
Date of publication from Gallup, D. Pound (1983 ed.) A26 note, p. 38.
Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette.
This title was among Bird's private collection, having been carted by him from Paris (where he stayed until 1940), to Spain, Tangiers, and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US.