Cathay: Poems After Li Po

by Ezra Pound

$900 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

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Clemente, Francesco. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Clemente. Seven color woodcuts by Francesco Clemente. Large 8vo 11-3/4 x 8 inches . Original pale blue Japanese linen, original slipcase. Item #323974 This volume is all the more remarkable for the fact that Pound knew no Chinese. Yet these translations of eighteen medieval poems, mainly by Li Po A.D.

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