A Lume Spento and Other Early Poems (1965)
A83
Editions
a. First edition
EZRA POUND | A LUME SPENTO | AND OTHER EARLY POEMS | NEW DIRECTIONS 128 pp., incl. facsims. front. (port.) 22:3 X 14:5 cm. Decorated paper boards, with blue cloth back, stamped in gold on front cover and on spine, with blackand-white reproduction of a photograph of the San Trovaso section of Venice set into front cover and, in the earliest copies only, descriptive label printed in black set into back cover; end-papers. Plain acetate dust-jacket. Published 30 October 1965 at $5.00; 6500 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... First printing ... Manufactured in the United States of America New Directions books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 333 Sixth Avenue, New York 14. Contents: Foreword (1964) signed: E. P—A Lume Spento (1908), with facsimile of title-page and dedication page—4 Quinzaine for This Yule (1909 [ée. 1908]), with facsimile of title-page—Some Poems from the “San Trovaso” Notebook (“The ‘San Trovaso’ Notebook,” by Mary de Rachewiltz; “San Vio,” “Roundel for Arms,” “Roundel after Joachim du Bellay,” “Sonnet of the August Calm,” “To Ysolt, for Pardon,” “Piazza San Marco,” “Some comfort ’tis to catch Will Shaxpeer stealing,” “XCVII (After Shakespeare’s sonnet),” “Alma Sol Veneziae,” “Ballad of Wine Skins”), with facsimile of front cover of the “San Trovaso” notebook and manuscript of “Sonnet of the August Calm”)—Bibliographical Note—Index of Titles and First Lines.
b. English issue ([1966])
EZRA POUND | A LUME SPENTO | AND OTHER EARLY POEMS | FABER AND FABER | 24 Russell Square London 128 pp., incl. facsims. front. (port.) 22.3 X 14.3 cm. Blue cloth boards stamped in gold on spine; end-papers. Yellow dust-jacket printed in black, red, and green. 104 Published 6 January 1966 at 25 s.; 1115 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: First published in England in memlxv [sic]... Printed in U.S. A.... Contents as in A83a.
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