Umbra (1920)
A20
Editions
a. First edition, ordinary copies
UMBRA | THE EARLY POEMS OF | EZRA POUND | All that he now wishes to keep in circulation from | “Personae,” “Exultations,” “Ripostes,” etc. With | translations from Guido Cavalcanti and | Arnaut Daniel and poems by | the late T. E. Hulme | LONDON | ELKIN MATHEWS, CORK STREET | MCMXXX
128 pp. 19.7 x 14.3 cm. Grey paper boards with canvas back lettered in blue on front cover and on spine; end-papers; fore and bottom edges roughly trimmed. Grey-blue dust-jacket printed in black.
Published June 1920 at 8s.; 1000 copies printed. Imprint on verso of title-leaf: The Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh On page : Dedication from “Personae” This Book is for Mary Moore of Trenton, if She Wants It
Other volumes from which this is collected were dedicated to Wm. Brooke Smith (in memoriam); to Carlos T. Chester; to Wm. Carlos Williams, and the intended “Arnaut Daniel” to Wm. Pierce Shepard.
Contents: PERSONAE: Grace before Song—La Fraisne—Cino—Na Audiart—Villonaud for This Yule—A Villonaud: Ballad of the Gibbet—Mesmerism—Famam librosque cano—Praise of Ysolt—For E. McC[artney]—At the Heart o’ Me—The White Stag—In Durance—Marvoil—And Thus in Nineveh—exuttations: Guido Invites You Thus—Night Litany—Sestina: Altaforte—Piere Vidal Old—Ballad of the Goodly Fere—Laudantes decem pulchritudinis Johannae Templi—Aux belles de Londres—Francesca—Prayer [formerly “Greek Epigram”]—The Tree—On His Own Face in a Glass—The Eyes—Nils Lykke—Planh for the Young English King—Alba [innominata]— Planh. Of White Thoughts He Saw in a Forest—from “Canzoni”: Au jardin [formerly “Und Drang,” XII]—FROM “POETRY AND DRAMA” FOR FEBRUARY 1912: Oboes I. For a Beery Voice—II. After Heine [“Translations from Heine, VIII”]—RIPOSTES: Silet—In exitum cuiusdam—The Tomb at Akr Caar—Portrait d’une femme—N[ew]. Y[ork]—A Girl—“Phasellus ille”—An Object—Quies—The Seafarer—[Echoes, II:] The Cloak—Δώρια—Apparuit—The Needle—Sub ‘mare—Plunge—A Virginal—Pan Is Dead—An Immorality—Dieu! Qu’il la fait— The Picture—Of Jacopo del Sellaio—The Return—Effects of Music upon a Company of People: I. Deux mouvements; H. From a Thing by Schumann— Phanopoeia, I., II., and H.—The Alchemist, unpublished 1912—Cantus planus— TRANSLATIONS: From the Sonnets of Guido Cavalcanti: [I-III], V-VIH, XV, XXVI, 31 XXXIII, XXXV, Madrigal, Ballata—From the Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti: [II-III, V-VII, XI-XIV]—Five Canzoni of Arnaut Daniel: [IX, VIII, XII, IV, XVI]—THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF T. E. HULME [with “Poem, Abbreviated [by E. P.] from the Conversation of Mr T. E. H.”]—Notes: 1. Note to “La Fraisne”—2. Personae and Portraits—Bibliography
b. Special copies
19.9 x 14.8 cm. Grey paper boards with white parchment back lettered in gold; grey end-papers; top edges gilt, fore edges untrimmed, bottom edges roughly trimmed. Natural silk ribbon marker.
Published June 1920, simultaneously with the ordinary copies, at 25s. Imprint on verso of title-leaf as in ordinary copies. Colophon (page [6]): One hundred copies of this Edition have been printed on English hand-made paper, for England and America, numbered and signed by the Author, of which this is No. [number written in on a row of printed dots and signed by Ezra Pound, in some copies with year] (There were at least four extra copies for presentation lettered A to D. Of these copy A has binding identical with that of copies 1-100, but is marked by Pound “out of series” and is signed with initials only; copy D is bound in white cloth without lettering or stamping and with marbled end-papers; it is also marked by Pound “out of series” and is signed with initials and year.)
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