Hi, Electra Hi, Jon - the best so far, up-to-date, and most accurate informations about to complicated story and differences of/between the different editions of Cantos is offered by Peter Stoicheff, "Hall of Mirrors - Ezra Pound and the End of the Cantos" (U of Michigan Press, 1995). If I recall it correctly Stoicheff deals not only with all Canto editions in the US (New Directions) and England (Faber); his only miss was the still different THIRTEENTH printing which came out in the same year as his own book. The 13th, I think, is not only the most beautiful [size etc] but the most surprising, too. Although Barbara Eastman's book was very important and long overdue when it was published at Orono, Stoicheff shows where a couple of her weanesses are. Electra. Take Eastman and Stoicheff together, and I think you have all you need. Cheers, alex