The Fifth Decad of Cantos Ezra Pound

46pp.; 22.5 x 15.6 cm. Black cloth boards stamped in silver down spine. Tan dust-jacket printed in blue and black. Published New York: Farrar & Reinhart, Inc., 1937 First (American) edition, first issue. One of the 331 copies originally published by Farrar & Reinhart before the remaining 419 were acquired and published by New Directions with a cancel title-leaf. One of the most desirable issues of Pound s Cantos. Dust-jacket with very light tanning to top-edge and a faint crease top-edge of front cover; not price-clipped. Pastedowns browned, and a light stain at inner parting running through the book. Contemporary ink inscription, John N. Ogden [unidentified] / December 1937 to ffep. Gallup A43b.