ORIGINAL TYPED EUSTACE MULLINS BOOK OF EZRA POUND (06/19/2011)

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Sold Date: 06/19/2011
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Fraternal, Political, Organizations

I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO PURCHASE A SMALL PORTION OF THE PERSONAL ESTATE OF EUSTACE MULLINS WHO WAS AN AUTHOR AND POLITICAL CONSPIRACY THEORIST AS WELL AS WORKED FOR THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND WAS PRESENT ON THE McCARTHY TRIALS. I WILL BE LISTING SEVERAL ITEMS FROM HIS ESTATE, IF THERE IS ANYTHING PARTICULAR YOU ARE SEARCHING, PLEASE EMAIL ME. I HAVE MANY PERSONAL LETTERS, PAPERS BOOKS AS WELL AS OTHER ITEMS.

This auction is for the orignal hand typed censored / corrected pre-published draft of "This Difficult Individual" by Eustace Mullins a biography of Ezra Pound. This is a version that was sent back from Fleet Publishing with red "censored" parts that are to be omited from the final publication. Authors have been know to hand type several versions of one book, so you never know what might be in this one. Looks to be complete, may be out of order, but it is still in the original envelope as I found it. The outside is marked about the red corrections for this book. The book itself is very rare, and this is your chance to see all the wording before it was published. Perfect for collectors. Original from the personal property of Author Eustace Mullins.

Here is a little information I found on the internet about Eustace Mullins and Ezra Pound:

Ezra Pound: 　

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry. He became known for his role in developing Imagism, which, in reaction to the Victorian and Georgian poets, favored tight language, unadorned imagery, and a strong correspondence between the verbal and musical qualities of the verse and the mood it expressed. His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos, which consumed his middle and late career, and was published between 1917 and 1969.[1]

Working in London in the early 20th century as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, Pound helped to discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost, and Ernest Hemingway. It was Pound who was responsible for the publication in 1915 of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", and for the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses. Hemingway wrote in 1925: "He defends [his friends] when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail. He loans them money. ... He writes articles about them. He introduces them to wealthy women. He gets publishers to take their books. He sits up all night with them when they claim to be dying ... he advances them hospital expenses and dissuades them from suicide."[2]

Outraged by the loss of life during the First World War, he lost faith in England, blaming usury and international capitalism for the war. He moved to Italy in 1924 where throughout the 1930s and 1940s, to his friends' dismay, he embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, expressed support for Adolf Hitler, and wrote for publications owned by the British fascist Oswald Mosley. The Italian government paid him during the Second World War to make hundreds of radio broadcasts criticizing the United States,[3] Franklin D. Roosevelt, and in particular Jews, broadcasts that were monitored by the U.S. government, as a result of which he was arrested for treason by American forces in Italy in 1945. He spent months in detention in a U.S. military camp in Pisa, including 25 days in a six-by-six-foot outdoor steel cage that he said triggered a mental breakdown: "when the raft broke and the waters went over me." Deemed unfit to stand trial, a decision disputed for decades after his death, he was incarcerated in St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., for over 12 years.[4]

While in custody in Italy he had begun work on sections of The Cantos that became known as The Pisan Cantos (1948), for which he was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 1949 by the Library of Congress. The honor triggered enormous contro...