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Umbra

Ezra Pound

Published London: Elkin Mathews, 1920

128pp.; 19.7 x 14.3 cm. Grey paper covered boards backed in canvas lettered in blue to front and spine. Grey-blue dust-jacket printed in black.

First edition, one of 1000 copies for trade. With the scarce and beautiful dust-jacket, covers only, without spine; spine-title remaining and laid-in; small chips, tears and a little loss to the front-cover; back-cover complete with good colour radially fading; flaps complete with even better colour showing the original duck-egg blue. Some browning to end-papers. A small piece of Japanese newspaper laid in on pp.10-11, marked in pen, “24.2.21 / E. Pound,” with offsetting. Gallup A20.