NMLP P-038358 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Pisan Cantos

Ezra Pound · New Directions, New York · 1948

US true first, confirmed against an academic bibliography and a dealer description independently: New Directions published in New York on 30 July 1948, ahead of the first UK edition from Faber & Faber, London, published 22 July 1949. Both are collected — the Faber is the first English edition and a separate setting, not an import of the New Directions sheets. The census claim of US precedence is correct.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-038358 for "The Pisan Cantos" by Ezra Pound (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038358, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).