a. First edition (Italian)

THRONES | 96-100 | de los cantares | [in red: 3 ideograms within border] | [in black: | ALL’INSEGNA DEL PESCE D’ORO | MILANO * MCMLIX [Vanni Scheiwiller]

1 blank leaf, 3 leaves, 126 pp., 2 leaves, 1 blank leaf. 20-6 X 12-6 cm. Tan paper boards printed in red and black on front cover, and in black on back cover and up the spine; end-papers. Plain cellophane dust-jacket. Half-title: Cantos 96-109 of Ezra Pound

Published 7 December 1959 at L. 3000; 300 copies printed. Colophon (recto of second leaf following page 126): Questa edizione originale ... curata da Vanni Scheiwiller @ stata impressa dalla Stamperia Valdonega di Verona in trecento esemplari numerati il 12 settembre 1959. [Device] Esemplare [number stamped in] “This volume has been printed in conformity with the typographical instructions given by the author.” (Nore, p. [128]) Some of the copies have a misprint in line 9, page 85, “no war” for “One war” with “no” cancelled in manuscript by the publisher.

b. First American (offset) edition ([1959]):

EZRA POUND | THRONES | 96-109 | de los cantares | [3 ideograms within border] | 4 NEW DIRECTIONS BOOK [New York, James Laughlin]

3 leaves, 126 pp., 1 leaf, 1 blank leaf. 20.8 x 12.8 cm. Black cloth boards lettered in silver down the spine; end-papers. Grey dust-jacket printed in dark blue.

Published 7 December 1959 at $3.50; 3000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf; ... Manufactured in the United States [Printed by offset from the Italian first edition] New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin New York Office - 333 Sixth Avenue 14.

In later copies, an “erratum” slip, correcting the misprint in line 9, page 85 (“no war” for “One war”), is tipped in at the foot of the third leaf.

c. First English (offset) edition ([1960]): [In black:] EZRA POUND | [i red:| RHRONES | [in black] 96-109 | de los cantares | [in red: 3 ideograms within border] | [in black:] FABER AND FABER | 24 RUSSELL SQUARE | LONDON

3 leaves, 126 pp., 1 leaf, 1 blank leaf. 20-7 X 13-7 cm. Red cloth boards stamped in gold down the spine; end-papers. Green dust-jacket printed in red and dark grey.

Published 4 March 1960 at 18s.; 2290 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: First published in England in memlx ... Printed lithographically in Great Britain at the University Press, Oxford from type set at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona.... In this edition, lines 8 and 9 on page 85 are omitted.