Cathay. Translations

by Ezra Pound. For the Most Part from the Chinese of Rihaku, from the Notes of the Late Ernest Fenollosa, and the Decipherings of the Professors Mori and Ariga by Ezra Pound

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First edition · Signed

First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Heavy tan paper wrappers, printed in black. Minor foxing. Fine. With loosely inserted Elkin Mathews handbill. Gallup A9. Item #375560 Inscribed on the first blank “A. Langdon Coburn from Ezra Pound March 1915”A spectacular association, from cosmopolitan American poet Ezra Pound to Alvin Langdon Coburn who photographed Pound on several occasions, including a

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