ORO E LAVORO

by POUND, Ezra:

$1,027 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Rapallo, Italy: Tipografia Moderna (Canessa). 1944. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original stapled paper covers with titles in black to the front cover. 23 pp. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, mildly toned to the top and stapled edge, very lightly rubbed and creased at the extremities, with various small stains and spots to the covers and endpapers. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners inscriptions or stamps. Not price-clipped ( Lire Una to the lower right corner of the rear cover. A well preserved example of this fragile pamphlet. A scarce example of the true first edition of Ezra Pound s Money Pamphlet Oro e Lavoro (Gallup A52a), evidenced by Sumptibus G. Dan on verso of title-page. An American poet, critic, and major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, Ezra Pound (1885-1972) drew international attention for his involvement in the Fascist movement in Italy and the Sal Republic during World War II. Having moved to the Italian seaside town of Rapallo in 1924, Pound became well-known among the local population for his eccentric Western fashion, loud personality, and for his vocal support of Benito Mussolini, whom he met in 1933. Throughout the 1930s and 40s, Pound s attention and interests increasingly turned towards economic theory and he became decidedly more politically active, with much of his literary output during this period condemning the concept of usury , or finance capital

• Publisher: Rapallo, Italy: Tipografia Moderna (Canessa). 1944
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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