First edition

EZRA POUND | A Lume Spento | 1908-1958 | a cura di Vanni Scheiwiller | [device] | ALL’INSEGNA DEL PESCE D’oro [Vanni Scheiwiller] | MILANO

1 blank leaf, 63 pp., 1 leaf, 1 blank leaf, incl. front, illus., ports, facsims. 10 x 7.4 cm. Stiff grey paper wrappers printed in black on page [i] and up the spine. Grey-green dust-jacket printed in black. (The first blank leaf and pages [3]-12 are of grey paper uncoated; the rest of the book is printed on coated paper. The illustrations, portraits, and facsimiles are numbered in sequence from I to XXX.)

Published November 1958 at L. 500 as “Serie Illustrata, N. 64”; 2000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... Printed in Italy Colophon (page [64]): ... Questo volumetto a cura di Vanni Scheiwiller & stato stampato dalle Off. Grafiche “Esperia” di Milano in duemila copie numerate de 1 a 2000, per ricordare il cinquantenario del primo libro di Ezra Pound, in occasione della mostra delle edizioni poundiane promossa dall’Azienda Autonoma di Soggiorno e Cura di Merano il 30 ottobre 1958 Copia N. [number stamped in]

Contents: A Lume Spento 1908: Piccola Antologia: [for poems translated see D71]—Documenti: [reproductions of pages [2], 3-4, 9-11, 16, 30, 42, 60-61 of A Lume Spento ([1908])—Ar1; title-page of A Quinzaine for This Yule ([1908])— A2; manuscript of “Venetian Night Litany” [“Night Litany”], pp. [30], [32], [34], with translation by Mary de Rachewiltz on pages 31, 33, 35; manuscript of “Statement of Being,” p. [36], with English transcription marked: “(inedito, 1907),” and translation by Carlo Izzo, p. 37; manuscript of “For Italico Brass,” pp[38], [40], [42], with English transcription marked: “(inedito, 1907),” pp. 39, 41, 43; page 27 of A Quinzaine for This Yule; part of page 59 of Personae (1909)—A3; selections from “Canto LXXVI (1948),” translated by Mary de Rachewiltz, pp. 51, 53, 55; with various photographs chiefly of the San Trovaso section of Venice|—Edizioni—Bibliografia—Opere di E. P. Pubblicate in Italia— Indice dei Documenti—Indice delle Poesie Note: “Statement of Being,” p. 37, and “For Italico Brass,” pp. 39, 41, 43, both written in 1907, are here printed for the first time, with reproductions of the original manuscripts of these two poems and of “Venetian Night Litany,” first published, with title “Night Litany,” in 4 Quinzaine for This Yule ([1908])—A2— pp. 8-9.