A Lume Spento

No book-club issue. The dominant trap is the New Directions (New York, 1965) 'A Lume Spento and Other Early Poems,' printed in roughly 6,500 copies, which reprints A Lume Spento together with A Quinzaine for This Yule plus previously unpublished early poems — and which includes facsimiles of the original 1908 title and dedication pages plus a bibliographic note, which is precisely what misleads a scanner or a hopeful owner. It runs 128 pages with an index, bound in blue cloth spine with patterned boards carrying a photographic image of San Trovaso, Venice on the front board, and was issued in a dust jacket. Three instant disqualifiers for the 1908 Venice printing: a title reading '...and Other Early Poems'; a cloth-and-boards binding rather than printed wrappers; a frontispiece portrait of Pound.