The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry by Ernest Fenollosa.
NY: Arrow Editions (1936). First edition. 52 pp. Faint sunning to spine and extrems, else fine in fine dust jacket with a touch of restoration to a short closed tear on the rear panel. Housed in a fine custom clamshell case with leather spine label. Penciled notation “inscribed by Pound” in Larry McMurtry’s hand on the front flyleaf. Witter Bynner’s bookplate inside the front board. Dated (year of pestilence a.d. 1947) and INSCRIBED by Pound, “Regretfully returned to W. Bynner…” with the addition, “+ regards to A.C.” = Alice Corbin, a mutual friend, early editor of POETRY. Gallup B36b.
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