Publication details: New York: Alfred A. Knopf,1917,
Rare Book
Stock number: 73785
Inscribed on the flyleaf, by Pound's friend and patron, the New York lawyer and collector John Quinn: 'To Miss G. Baxter from John Quinn at the suggestion of Ezra Pound June 29, 1917'. The recipient was the sculptor Gwen Baxter, whom Pound had encouraged Quinn to help in a letter of February 1917 - her sister, Viola, had met Pound at Hamilton College, and formed a lasting friendship (also, via Pound's introduction, with William Carlos Williams).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION using the English sheets, the prelims on noticeably whiter paper, frontispiece foxed, faint stain at foot of pp. 80-90 (not affecting text), pp. viii, 268, 8vo, original dark blue cloth, backstrip with printed label a little chipped and browned, light wear at extremities, a few marks to cloth, edges untrimmed and toned, endpapers a little spotted, good
Bibliography: (Gallup A13b)
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