Personae

The confusion the census flags is real and is the principal trap. Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound (Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926 — including Ripostes, Lustra, Homage to Sextus Propertius and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley) is an entirely different and much later book: 231 pages, black cloth stamped in gilt, first published December 1926 with a second printing in February 1927. It is routinely listed simply as 'Personae' and offered as a first edition, which it is — of a different work. Distinguish on imprint (Boni & Liveright, New York vs Elkin Mathews, London), date, extent (231 pp. vs 59 pp.) and binding (black cloth vs grey gilt-stamped paper boards). The secondary trap is the 1913 Elkin Mathews Personae & Exultations issue built from leftover 1909 sheets. No book-club issue is documented for the 1909 book.