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A Lume Spento and Other Early Poems
Ezra Pound
128pp.; 22.3 x 14.5 cm. Decorated paper boards with blue cloth back, stamped in gold on front cover and spine, with black and white reproduction of a photograph of San Trovaso, Venice, set into front cover, and descriptive label printed in black set into back cover.
Published New York: New Directions, 1965
Part of Ezra Pound, III.
“A collection of stale creampuffs.”
— Foreword (San Ambrogio, 19 Ag. ’64), Ezra Pound.
First edition, one of the very first copies issued with the printed label set into the back cover (later copies have a plain back cover). An important republication of Pound’s earliest poems, including A Lume Spento, A Quinzaine for This Yule, and the San Trovaso Notebook. A fine copy with the very occasional pencil annotation. Gallup A83a.