THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. V, No. 7
Ezra Pound-centric issue of the celebrated Modernist journal.
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Price: $300.00
THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. V, No. 7
"Devoted chiefly to Ezra Pound..."
Founded in 1914, THE LITTLE REVIEW soon gained a reputation for its experimental approach to art, literature, and politics alike. This issue includes nine poems and other works by Pound, along with criticism by Ben Hecht and William Butler Yeats.
A note to readers on the final page promises that Joyce's ULYSSES - whose first part had appeared in the March, 1918 issue – would "be continued in the next number." The publication of ULYSSES continued from 1919 to 1920, even while postal workers began to seize individual issues for obscenity. Anderson and Heap were convicted on the charge of obscenity in the subsequent February 1921 trial. ULYSSES was abandoned, only about half of it published. This disaster led to the iconic publication of the book by Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare & Company in 1922. When Anderson and Heap resumed publishing the journal after the trial, they removed its motto (found here): "Making No Compromise with the Public Taste."
Read more: Edward de Grazia, Girls Lean Back Everywhere.
The Object
First edition. New York: Margaret C. Anderson, November, 1918. 8.5'' x 5.75''. Original saddle-stapled yellow printed wrappers. Chip to lower corner of front cover. Spine sunned. Pages toned.
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