POUND Ezra

A Lume Spento

First edition, one of 2,000 copies (no. 772). 30 b&w illustrations, photo portraits and manuscript facsimiles. 48mo., 10x7.4cm, 63, [2]pp. Stiff grey paper wrappers printed in black on front cover and spine, original grey-green dust-jacket printed in black on both covers and spine. Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro, 1958.

£100.00

Very good, lower edge of dust-jacket front cover knocked, tail of spine lightly chipped, text-block slightly leaning.

A very small edition of Pound’s first collection of poetry, published on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Despite its diminutive scale, it contains facsimiles of the original book and its manuscripts, photos of Pound and Venice, translations of the poems into Italian, and two poems from 1907: ‘Statement of Being’ and ‘For Italico Brass’, printed here for the first time.

Stock No.
254249