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.