Item #5480 The Case of Ezra Pound. Charles Norman.
The Case of Ezra Pound
The Case of Ezra Pound

The Case of Ezra Pound

New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1968. First edition. 8vo, 209pp. Index, photographs. Inscribed by Norman on the ffep. Two-tone brown cloth boars, spine decorated gilt, silver, and red in illustrated jacket. Some toning to endpapers and edges of textblock. Some light wear to top edge of jacket and sunning to spine. Near fine.

The dedication copy of this book on Pound from poet and biographer, Charles Norman (1904-1996).  Norman also published a biography of the author simply titled Ezra Pound in 1960.  This copy inscribed to the dedicatee, Samuel P. Shaw Jr.: 


"Dear Sam: The dedication tells all.  C.N."

Norman and Shaw, an editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review corresponded specifically over Pound's broadcasts and his subsequent indictment for treason, which is explored in this work.  


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