There are poems that appear in both "&" and "is 5"

[palewire]

We have at least a few poems that appear the table of contents for both books. The ones I have spotted are:

• "in the,exquisite;"
• "Paris;this April sunset completely utters"
• "little ladies more"
• i was sitting in mcsorley’s outside it was New York and beauti-
• Dick Mid’s large bluish face without eyebrows
• the waddling
• ta

Since we do not have an original first edition of "&," our table of contents for that book was drawn from another source. It's possible that it is inaccurate and introducing the redundancy. We know that the tables have been changed in subsequent through the years. It's also possible the poems were printed twice and everything is historically accurate.

Until we can solve the riddle by fixing #127 and acquiring a first edition of "&," the poems will be duplicated and included in both books.

[davidpiano]

There's also the possibility of version differences between copies of the same poem. I have no idea whether these would have been printed from the same plates (if "plates" is even the correct term – I'm more familiar with music) or whether the poems were newly typeset for each publication. If there are version differences that aren't just obvious typos, it would be good to maintain the differences.

[palewire]

I agree. Do you know of where we can find and scan an "&" first edition? That's the next step we need to take here.

[davidpiano]

I have no clue where to find one, sorry.