Ezra Pound. 
 
The Riverside Press: 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Minor smudging and soling to the boards. Boards slightly bowed. Soiling on the attached endpapers. Leaves browned by time but they are clean. 128 pages. Very good. 
 
At the height of his powers Pound edited and released "all that he wishes to keep in circulation from 'Persona,' 'Exultations,' 'Ripostes,' etc." Included are translations of Cavalcanti and the poetry of T.E. Hulme. For the serious Pound collector who wants to investigate the Pound mixture of mythmaking and editorial sensitivity, turned towards his own youthful personae. 
 
"Our days as rain drops in the sea surge fall, 
as bright drops upon a leaden sea 
Grant so my songs to this grey folk may be: 
As drops that dream and gleam and falling catch the sun"