New Directions (NY) — Ezra Pound at Seventy

NY: New Directions, 1955. 32mo. Pamphlet, stapled. Offset. 3-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches. [10] pp. Cover portrait of Pound by La Martinelli, painted in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC. "To mark Ezra Pound's seventieth year New Directions wrote to a number of persons and here publishes the statements they sent about him, together with a list of his books in print ." Contributions from W. H. Auden, e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Archibald Macleish, Jose V. de Pina Martins, Marianne Moore, Norman H. Pearson, Stephen Spender, Dame Edith Sitwell. Minor wear along spine, otherwise Very Good plus. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Thomas Parkinson Archive. .