First edition of Shershenevich’s translation of Vildrac and Duhamel’s Notes sur la technique poétique (1910), ‘which served as the basis for Shershenevich’s theory of the “vers libre of images,” in his imagist book, 2 × 2 = 5 (1920)’ (Terras).

OCLC records copies at Waseda, Getty, Harvard, and Wisconsin.

Getty 716; not in Kilgour.

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