Ezra Pound. 
 
Boni & Liverlight: 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Scuffing and culaccinos on the boards as well as bottom along the corners. Bumping on the crown and heel. A few stains and small bits of foxing on the endpapers as well as previous owner's name and bookseller markings.  Evidence of well done repair to the gutter and the back attached endpaper. 231 pages. Very good. 
 
This was not a collection but an undertaking. In 1926 Pound carefully edited his early shorter poems into a sequence of different poetic voices or personae to set the pattern for everything he considered literary modernity - concision, self-consciousness, the whir of speed - and created what we consider literary modernity. 
 
"I am thy soul, Nikoptis. I have watched 
These five millennia, and thy dead eyes 
Moved not, nor ever answer my desire, 
And thy light limbs, wherethrough I leapt aflame, 
Burn not with me no any saffron thing. 
 
See, the light grass sprang up to the pillow, 
And kissed thee with a myriad grassy tongues; 
But not thou me."