Selected Poems (1928)
A30
Editions
a. First edition, ordinary copies
EZRA POUND | | SELECTED POEMS | EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION | By | T. S. ELIOT | * | THIS SELECTION INCLUDES | PERSONA OF EZRA POUND | RIPOSTES | LUSTRA | CATHAY | H.S. MAUBERLEY | AND SOME EARLY POEMS REJECTED BY THE AUTHOR | AND OMITTED FROM | HIS COLLECTED EDITION|*| LONDON | FABER & GWYER
1 blank leaf, 2 leaves, vii-xxxii, 184 pp. 19.3 x 13.5 cm. Green cloth boards stamped in gold on spine, with, at base: FABER & GWYER (or, later, FABER & FABER); laid end-papers; top edges stained blue-green; other edges untrimmed. Tan dust-jacket printed in black.
Published 23 November 1928 at 7s. 6d; 1000 copies printed. On verso of titledeaf: First published in mcmxxviii . . . Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Limited Frome and London.
The contents and categories are identical with those of Personae (1926)—A27a— except for the omission of “Ballad of the Goodly Fere,” “Mr. Housman’s Message,” “Translations and Adaptations from Heine,” “Au salon,” “Au jardin,” “Silet,” “In exitum cuiusdam,” “Les Millwin,” “The Bellaires,” “The New Cake of Soap,” “To Formianus’ Young Lady Friend,” “Our Contemporaries? “Poems from Blast (1914),” “Cantico del sole,” “Homage to Sextus Propertius,” “Cantus planus,” and the addition at the end of “Early Poems Rejected by the Author and Omitted from His Collected Edition” (“In tempore senectutis,”” “Camaraderie,” “An Idyl for Glaucus,” “Canzon: The Yearly Slain” [with Manning’s “Koré”], “Canzon: Of Incense”).
b. Signed copies
xoadi[?], 184 pp. 20.2 x 14.3 cm. Grey paper boards with white vellum back stamped in gold; wove end-papers; top edges gilt; other edges untrimmed. Plain glassine dust-jacket.
Published 10 December 1928 at 25s. Colophon (page [ii]): This edition printed on English hand-made paper is limited to one hundred numbered copies. This is number ... [number written in, signed: E. Pound]
Note: This book has been reprinted at frequent intervals, with impressions identified on verso of title-leaf. A new edition (2300 copies) was published, also by Faber and Faber, 25 March 1949; its contents are identical with those of the first edition save for the addition of a brief “Postscript: 1948” to T. S. Eliot’s introduction, and the alteration in title of one poem from “Dieu! Qu’il la fait” to “Dieu qui I’a faicte.” This edition has itself been reprinted, with impressions identified on verso of title-leaf, it was issued at 6s. in the series “Faber paper covered Editions” in 1959.
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