Robert Graves | First Editions
1895 - 1985
See below our stock of Robert Graves First Editions.
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Majorca Observed.
London: Cassell, 1965. [Illustrated Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[2] 150 [8]. With frequent line drawings by Hogarth, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket, also illustrated by Hogarth, priced at 36s. Some light handling to jacket. A fine copy..... More
The Crowning Privilege: The Clark Lectures 1954-1955. Also Various Essays on Poetry and Sixteen New Poems.
London: Cassell & Company, 1955. [Poetry and Literary Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 230. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket priced at 15s. Gently toned throughout; a little light wear to board. Jacket lightly toned all over; more heavily to..... More
Difficult Questions, Easy Answers.
London: Cassell, 1972. [Literary Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 213 [3]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the golden typographic dust-jacket, priced at £3.00. A little light handling and just a hint of toning to jacket spine. Fine. More
The English Ballad. A Short Critical Survey.
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. [Poetry Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.139 [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with plain paper title label to spine. A nice clean copy internally, with light wear to boards, and heavy sunning and toning to spine. Very good. More
Good-Bye to All That.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. [Memoirs] FIRST EDITION, second issue. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.448. Publisher's orange cloth, gilt titles to spine, embossed Cape urn to lower board. Frontispiece portrait and seven other plates. Postcard advertising Capes literary periodical Now and Then loosely inserted. Some occasional spotting, heavier to the slightly..... More
Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. [Great War Memoirs] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.448. Including the Sassoon poem to pp.341-43, and no deletions to p.290. Sewn and bound with tapes, endpapers, and glue to spine, but no binding. Possibly a proof or advance copy, printed on thinner paper..... More
Lawrence and the Arabs.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 454. With twenty-eight black and white plates; a mixture of photographs and illustrations. With the advertising sheet tipped-in after p.448. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. A little offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a clean, fresh copy..... More
More Poems 1961.
London: Cassell, 1961. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[10] 45 [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Very slight sunning to jacket spine, otherwise a lovely fine copy. More
New Poems 1962.
London: Cassell, 1962. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[10] 42. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at 12/6. A little rubbing and a couple of nicks to jacket, otherwise a lovely fine copy. More
Poems 1926-1930.
London: William Heinemann, 1931. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 89 [3]. With the spare title label at rear. Publisher's maroon cloth with white lizard-skin pattern and black titles to paper labels on spine and upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the remains of the matching dust-jacket..... More
Poems 1968-1970.
London: Cassell, 1970. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.x; 90. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and cream dust-jacket designed by Brian Roll, priced at £1.50. Light rubbing and a couple of small closed tears to jacket edges, and some light red marks..... More
Poems 1970-1972.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1973. [Poetry] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 83 [1]. Publisher's quarter orange cloth with brown titles to spine, and black cloth over boards. Orange endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at $5.95. Light handling and rubbing to jacket, with a few..... More
Poems and Satires 1951.
London: Cassell & Company, 1951. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 40. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket titled in purple, priced at 7/6. A lovely clean copy with just a little toning and rubbing to jacket; more so to spine..... More
Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets: Poems in Transit.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1945. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 75 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, titled in red and black. A nice crisp, clean..... More
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