79/1208 The Exile. No. 1-4 [all published]. Ed. Ezra Pound. N.pl., n.publ. (no.1, printed by M. Darantière, Dijon)/ Chicago, Pascal Covici (no.2 and 3)/ New York, Covici Friede (no.4), 1927-1928, 4 vols., orig. unif. wr., together in custom made red cl. chemise and slipcase, giltlettered on spine.

- No. 1 sl. yellowed due to the quality of the paper and 2 lvs. lacking upper blank corner (without loss of text, only sl. affecting the page number). A fine set.

= Rare complete set of the modernist periodical founded and run by Ezra Pound, containing contributions by Ezra Pound, by authors who became known as the "Objectivists" (Ernest Hemingway, Robert McAlman, Carl Rakosi, Herman Spector, Howard Weeks, William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky), as well as contributions by authors aquainted with or admired by Pound (Richard Aldington, Stella Breen, Morley Callahan, John Cournos, R.C. Dunning, Clifford Gesseler, Joe Gould, Guy Hickok, Mark Kliorin, Payson Loomis, Benjamin Peret, Samuel Putnam, John Rodker and W.B. Yeats). The contribution by Hemingway to the first number with the manuscript correction in pencil by Pound to the title "Nothoemist Poem". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVIII.