a. First edition

[In black:] EXULTATIONS | OF | EZRA POUND | [in red: device] | [in black:| LONDON | ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET | M CM IX viii, 9-51, [1], [10] pp., 1 blank leaf. 17-8 X 11-4 cm. Dark red paper boards lettered in gold on front cover (either: Exultations | of | Ezra Pound or, probably later: Exultations | Ezra Pound) and on spine; end-papers; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Published 25 October 1909 at 2s. 6d.; 1000 sets of sheets printed (of which an undetermined number—not more than 500—were issued as part of Personae & Exultations (1913)). Imprint on page [52]: [Device] Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co. Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London Dedication on page [v]: To Carlos Tracy Chester “amicitiae longaevitate” Contents: Guido Invites You Thus—Night Litany—Sandalphon—Sestina: Al7 taforte—Piere Vidal Old—Ballad of the Goodly Fere—Hymn III, from the Latin of Mare Antony Flaminius—Sestina for Ysolt—Portrait, from “La mére inconnue” [formerly “Un retrato”|—“Fair Helena” by Rackham—Laudantes decem pulchritudinis Johannae Templi—Aux belles de Loendres—Francesca— Greek Epigram—Christophori Columbi tumulus, from the Latin of Hipolytus Capilupus—Plotinus—On His Own Face in a Glass—-Histrion—The Eyes— Defiance [formerly “To the Dawn: Defiance” |—Song (“Love thou thy dream” )— Nel Biancheggiar—Nils Lykke—A Song of the Virgin Mother, in the Play “Los Pastores de Belen.” From the Spanish of Lope de Vega—Planh for the Young English King ... From the Provencal of Bertrans de Born—Alba innominata. From the Provengal—Planh. It Is of the White Thoughts That He Saw in the Forest . Publisher’s advertisements, [10] pages following page [52], are an integral part of the volume. Notes: All the poems in Exuttations were reprinted in Collected Early Poems ([1976])—Ag8. An (unauthorised) American reprint of this book, clothbound, was produced by offset in 1973 in New York by Haskell House Publishers Ltd. b. Re-tssue, with Personae (1913): For description see above under Personae (1909)—A3b.