Publication details: Stephen Swift,1912,
Rare Book
An important early collection, not least for the inclusion of Hulme's 'complete poetical works' - five poems that include what Eliot, in a 1924 tribute, regarded as 'two or three of the most beautiful short poems in the language'. Pound's own work here includes 'Portrait d'Une Femme', 'The Return', and 'The Seafarer', his translation from the Anglo-Saxon. One of the key texts of Imagism; the printed dedication is to William Carlos Wiliiams. A month after publication in October 1912, the publisher went bust - the first issue, with Swift's catalogue for 'Books That Compel' at the rear intact, is uncommon.
1912, pp. 64, [32, ads], crown 8vo, original grey cloth, the title within a border stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip gently sunned, top corners a little pushed, top edge slightly dusty with others untrimmed, these and endpapers slightly spotted, very good
Bibliography: (Gallup A8a)
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