1965 A Lume Spento and Other Early Poems

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition thus, with the publisher's issued archival-quality acetate dust wrapper, frontispiece and facsimile title pages. Collated, complete.

This volume contains work from Ezra Pound's early Venetian period. His first two books, 'A Lume Spento' and 'A Quinzane for This Yule', both printed in very small runs in 1908, are included. Also present are a number of hitherto unpublished poems, at the time of publication recently discovered in the sketchbook Pound used at the time.