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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. First edition, 8vo, pp. 360; bookplate on front pastedown, fine in original brown and beige cloth. Higginson & Williams, A84. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. First edition, 8vo, pp. 360; bookplate on front pastedown, fine in original brown and beige cloth. Higginson & Williams, A84. More
London: Leonard & Virginia Wolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926. First edition, 8vo, pp. 33, [1]; original stiff pictorial wrappers after a design by Vanessa Bell; short split at top of front joint, else very good. Issued as no. XVIII in the publisher's Hogarth Essays series. Woolmer notes that 1000..... More
London: Ernest Benn Ltd., n.d. [1925]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 32; self-wrappers; very good. Contains 23 poems by Graves. Higginson & Williams A-17. More
New York: The Hudson Review, Inc., 1954. Sm 4to, pp. [167]-181; extremities lightly creased and soiled, else very good in original beige and red printed wrappers. More
[Mallorca? 1967.]. This article, on twelve 11" x 8.5" sheets, appeared in Family Circle magazine on September 24, 1967. An affectionate account of the early life of Robert Graves's mother, who, while still a young girl, became "not only lady-companion but cook, housekeeper, secretary and nurse to an old recluse"..... More
London: Ernest Benn [i.e. Eyre & Spottiswoode], [1927, i.e. 1943]. First edition, later issue; 8vo, pp. 25, [1]; errata slip tipped in at p. 7; original printed wrappers with contemporary red cloth overlay; very good. Originally published by Ernest Benn in 1927, this is the remainder binding issued by Eyre..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, [1927]. Advance copy only / not for sale, 8vo, pp. [2], 454; with the full compliment of 28 plates and maps as in the published edition; original brown printed wrappers; bookplates inside both front and back wrapper, minor cracks at the spine extremities; in all, a very..... More
London: Martin Secker, October, 1919. Slim folio, pp. [2], 3-54, [2]; 12 plates (some in color) by Rockwell Kent, William Nicholson, Derwent Wood, John Nash, and others; original pictorial boards; edges worn, rebacked and recased with new endpapers, modern bookplate; internally fine. Printed letterpress by Gerald T. Meynell. With a...... More
Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1803. First American edition, small 12mo, pp. 132; full contemporary sheep, gilt ruled spine with red morocco label; boards scuffed, joints strengthened, text clean and sound, signature of Robert Wallace on front free endpaper, slip with contemporary or slightly later manuscript notes on a remedy laid in;..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1980. Edition limited to 2000 copies (this, no. 727) signed by the artist Paul Hogarth and the designer Freeman Keith; full-page water color illustrations (many are double-page), t.e.g.; 4to, pp. xx, 144; bookplate on front pastedown, upper cover and first couple blank leaves have..... More
New York: Random House, 1940. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 380; facsimile, map endpapers; original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; jacket edges a bit chipped and worn, else very good and sound. Higginson & Williams A51b. More
Paris: Hours Press, 1930. First edition limited to 200 signed and numbered copies (this, no. 148); small folio, pp. [4], 17, [2]; original pictorial boards after photographs by Len Lye; green calf shelf-back browned, gilt-lettered spine; edges a little rubbed, else near fine, without the uncommon glassine wrapper. More
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927. Edition limited to 375 copies, 4to, pp. [4], 110, [2]; quarter vellum, green paper-covered boards; gilt design on cover and gilt title on spine, t. e. g.; boards and spine soiled, text block clean and firm. The foreword is by Graves and Lindsay was the book's..... More
[Mallorca]: The New Seizin Press, 1992. First edition limited to 175 copies of which this is no. 63, 8vo, unpaged; original decorative boards in glassine dust jacket; fine. From the colophon: "These poems, written by Robert Graves when he was in his seventies, were selected from his unpublished work by..... More
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, [1958]. First American edition, 4to, pp. [8], 72, [1]; text illustrations, many printed in brown; original red cloth in grey pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; jacket edges quite worn with shallow tears and losses, none affecting text; about fine in good only dust jacket. Bookplate on front..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, [1964]. First edition, American issue, slim 8vo, pp. 48; color illustrations; original cloth in white and green pictorial dust jacket; bookplate on front pastedown, spine a touched toned; fine. Higginson & Williams A110b. More
DeyĆ”, Majorca: Seizin Press, 1936. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 311; original cloth in white pictorial second state dust jacket, cancelled front flap with "7/6 net"; jacket edges rather worn with some tears and shallow loss at spine head; interior fine. With all the correct first issues points as..... More
[London]: Privately printed, 1974. First edition limited to 536 copies of which this is no. 134, large, slim 8vo, pp. 47; original cloth in grey dust jacket printed in red and purple; fine. Printed at the Stellar Press. Signed by the author. Higginson A137. More
[London]: Privately printed, 1969. First edition limited to 536 copies of which this is no. 280, large, slim 8vo, pp. [8], 40; original card wrappers in yellow dust jacket printed in red and black; fine. Signed by the author and printed at the Stellar Press. Higginson & Williams A127. More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, [1931]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 319; publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine (partially rubbed away), top edge stained black; bookplate on front pastedown; very good. Higginson & Williams A35d, not mentioning a dust jacket for this edition. More
London: Jonathan Cape, [1930]. First edition, second state with pp. 157/158 a cancel, 8vo, pp. 315; original cloth in blue-green dust jacket printed in blue; jacket spine quite browned with small piece of old tape repair, additional tape repair on jacket verso not visible from the exterior, shallow chips and..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, [1930]. First edition, first state with "The Child She Bare" on p. 157, 8vo, pp. 315; original cloth in blue-green dust jacket printed in blue; jacket spine browned and a bit cocked, a few shallow chips along edges; interior fine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Higginson & Williams..... More
London: Cassell & Co Ltd, [1956]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 203; original boards in blue pictorial dust jacket; top jacket edge a bit shelf worn, else about fine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Higginson & Williams A78. More
London: Cassell and Company, [1934]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 190; original cloth in buff pictorial dust jacket (a few small soil spots) printed in red and black; spine toned, else very good and sound. Higginson & Williams A48a. More
[London]: Privately printed, 1967. First edition limited to 386 copies of which this is no. 19, large, slim 8vo, pp. [2], v, [1], 32; original card wrappers in green dust jacket printed in black and red; fine. Signed by the author and printed at the Stellar Press. Higginson & Williams..... More