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Robert Graves | First Editions
1895 - 1985
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Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1886. [Art Reference] LEATHER-BOUND REVISED EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Large octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.viii, 755 [3]; pp.viii, 779 [3]. Contemporary navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and marbled paper over boards. Top edges gilt, with marbled endpapers..... More
But It Still Goes On. An Accumulation.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. [Miscellany] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 315 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Internally crisp and clean. Cloth shows light wear, and toning to spine. Very good. 'This book must be read rather as an appendix than as a...... More
Count Belisarius.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1938. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.527; [1], advertisement; [4], maps. Bound in publisher's original blue buckram with gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted red. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fine copy without wrapper. Like Graves' previous novels, 'I..... 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
Fairies and Fusiliers.
London: William Heinemann, 1917. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] x; 84. Publisher's pink cloth with dulled metallic title to spine. A small blue ink ownership to first blank, otherwise internally clean, with a light tobacco scent. Binding somewhat delicate; hinges starting. Spine toned, with..... 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
![Item #64636 I, Claudius [and] Claudius The God. Robert GRAVES](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/64636.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686587295)
I, Claudius [and] Claudius The God.
London: Arthur Barker, 1934. [Historical Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 9cm), pp.494 [2]; pp.[2] 575 [2]. With a folding family tree of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to rear of each volume. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
Lawrence and the Arabs.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [Biography] FIRST EDITION, first impression. 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. Elegantly hand-bound in half red calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with..... More
The More Deserving Cases. Eighteen Old Poems for Reconsideration.
Marlborough: Marlborough College Press, 1962. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[40]. With a portrait frontispiece of the author by H.A. Freeth. Number 341 of 750 copies (400 thus), SIGNED by the author in blue ink to the limitation page, and bound in red full morocco, with gilt..... 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 1930-1933.
London: Arthur Barker Ltd., 1933. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression, a review copy. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 38 [2]. With a slip from the publisher loose to preliminaries, requesting a review. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and grey paper over boards, titled in black to..... More
Poems 1965-1968.
London: Cassell, 1968. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 97 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Some light spotting to endpapers and cloth. Light handling to jacket only. Near fine. 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 1970-1972.
London: Cassell, 1972. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.x; 85 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the Blue typographic dust-jacket. Blue ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. Price-clipped jacket very slightly tone to spine, with one tiny closed tear and very light handling. Near fine..... More
Poems and Satires 1951.
London: Cassell & Company, 1951. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. 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..... 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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