a fine copy. first edition, limited to 212 copies, this number 170 of 200. "These Cantos, the first half of which were published in 1925, represent the best work in Pound's 'poem of some length' which is still in progress. There are more lyrics and fewer chunks of prose than in the later, not so many economic propositions and ideograms, and some beautiful passages on the Homeric world and renaissance Italy." Connolly, The Modern Movement 66; Gallup A31a.
