Ripostes of Ezra Pound. Whereto Are Appended The Complete Poetical Works Of T. E. Hume With Prefatory Note. London: Elkin Matthews, 1915. First Edition, Fourth Issue. Pp 63, [1], uncut. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers, lightly chipped along edges & browned, otherwise a very good copy.

Fourth issue, with first edition sheets and cancel title-page.

Only 400 copies were issued with cover design by the author’s wife, Dorothy Shakespeare Pound.

Ripostes contains several of Pound’s best early poems, including “Portrait D’Une Femme”, “An Object”, “The Seafarer” & “The Return”. The book is dedicated to William Carlos Williams.