First edition

A SELECTION | OF POEMS| by | EZRA POUND | Faber and Faber | 24 Russell Square | London 80 pp. 19:2 X 12.9 cm. Blue-grey paper boards printed in orange-yellow on front cover and down the spine; end-papers. Orange dust-jacket printed in blue. (Also—later—in stiff blue-grey paper wrappers printed in blue.) Published 5 December 1940 at 2s. 6d. in the series “Sesame Books”; 7100 copies printed. On verso of nitle-leaf: First published in November MCMXL ... Printed in Great Britain by Western Printing Services Ltd., Bristol ... A misprint in the “Select Bibliography,” p. 7, “Zastio” for “Za Hio,” was not corrected. Contents: FROM SELECTED POEMS: Marvoil—Sestina: Altaforte—Ballatetta—Portrait d’une femme—A Girl—The Seafarer—The Picture—Of Jacopo del Sellaio—The Return—The Alchemist—The Condolence—The Garden—Commission—The Temperaments—The Faun—Phyllidula—Society—Epitaphs— Song of the Bowmen of Shu—The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter—Exile’s Letter—Near Perigord—[From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Part 1, I:] E.P. Ode pour lélection de son sépulchre—[Part 2, I:] Mauberley [(1920), II and III:] 65 ‘The Age Demanded’—FROM HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: [I:] Shades of Callimachus—[IV:] Difference of Opinion with Lygdamus—[and IX:] The twisted rhombs ceased their clamour of accompaniment——-FROM A DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS: Canto I—Canto II—FROM THE FIFTH DECAD OF CANTOS: Canto XLV. Note: Nothing is printed here for the first time.