First edition

[In black:] EZRA POUND | [in red:] PROFILE | [in black:] AN ANTHOLOGY COLLECTED IN MCMXXXI | MILAN [Giovanni Scheiwiller] MCMXXXII

1 blank leaf, 3 leaves, 9-142 pp., 3 leaves. 20.8 x 15.8 cm. (wrappers); 20.4 x 15.4 cm. (leaves). Grey-green paper wrappers, printed in black on page [i] and up the spine, folded over stiff white blanks. Plain glassine outer wrapper.

Published late May 1932 at $3.00; 250 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... Printed in Italy Colophon (recto of third leaf following page 142): Edition privately printed for John Scheiwiller limited to 250 numbered copies. Copy N. [number stamped in] Tipografia Card. Ferrari—Milano “A collection of poems which have stuck in my memory and which may possibly define their epoch, or at least rectify current ideas of it in respect to at least one contour.” (Wote by Ezra Pound, recto of first leaf) 

Contains poems by Arthur Symons (one), Ezra Pound (six), Padraic Colum (two), James Joyce (one), William Carlos Williams (four), Ford Madox Ford (three), Walter de la Mare (two), T. E. Hulme (five), H. D. (two), Richard Aldington (two), Allen Upward (three), W. B. Yeats (one), Alice Corbin Henderson (one), T. S. Eliot (three), Marianne Moore (five), Mina Loy (one), Donald Evans (two), E. E. Cummings (five), Ernest Hemingway (one), Robert McAlmon (one), R. Cheever Dunning (two), Archibald MacLeish (two), Louis Zukofsky (one), Joseph Gordon Macleod (one), Howard Weeks (one), Basil Bunting (one), Emanuel Carnevali (two), Parker Tyler (one), and two groups of poems from New Masses, New York. The poems are printed chronologically by date of composition and are linked by prose passages by Pound. (Pound’s own contributions are “The Tree,” p. 16, “The Coming of War: Actaeon,” p. 49, “The Gipsy,” p. 50, “Dogmatic Statement Concerning the Game of Chess,” p. 51, “‘Nodier raconte ... ”” [“Moeurs contemporaines,” V], pp. 71-72, and “FH. S. Mauberley, Section II, Poem II,” pp. 72-73, all reprinted from earlier books.)