12mo. Original tan boards with brown titles; partially unopened, spine title faded, tiny soil spot along bottom edge of upper cover, but an unusally intact example of a fragile book, lacking the rare dust-jacket.  Red half morocco gilt slipcase.

Gallup A6

partially unopened, spine title faded, tiny soil spot along bottom edge of upper cover, but an unusally intact example of a fragile book, lacking the rare dust-jacket. Red half morocco gilt slipcase
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first edition, inscribed from john reed to fellow radical journalist lincoln steffens,  " Christmas 1911 / To Steff, the Poet / from / Reed the Poetaster."

Steffens took Reed u♎nder his wing, introducing him to the bohemian character and characters of Greenwich Village. An interesting association, not least because a Steffens ꧒lecture on the bureaucracy of Soviet Russia was later to have a great impact on Pound.