A6 THE PIER-GLASS [1921]
a. First edition:
THE PIER-GLASS | BY ROBERT GRAVES | LONDON: MARTIN SECKER
Collation: [A]8 B–D8, 32 leaves.
p.[1] THE PIER-GLASS; p.[2] blank; [plate, facing title-page: portrait of Graves by Ben Nicholson]; [protective tissue tipped to title-page]; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] quotation (2 ll.) from Skelton and printer’s notice; p.[5] TO | NANCY NICHOLSON; p.[6] blank; p.[7] NOTE; p.[8] blank; p.9 CONTENTS; p.[10] blank;pp.11–45 text; p.[46] blank; p.[47] THE CORONATION MURDER and epigraph of 2 ll.; p.[48] blank; pp.49–53 text; p.[54] blank; p.[55] author’s advertisement; p.[56] blank; pp.[57]–[64] publisher’s advertisements.
18.8 × 12.5 cm. Bulk: 1.0/1.4 cm. White wove paper; top edges only trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in yellowish buff boards with black cobbled design; front and back blank; white label at top of spine: [rule] | The | Pierglass | [diamond] | Robert | Graves | [rule].
Price: 5s. Number of copies: 500. Published in February 1921 in cream dust-jacket printed in purple.
Contents: The Stake – The Troll’s Nosegay – The Pier-Glass – The Finding of Love – Reproach – The Magical Picture – Distant Smoke – Morning Phoenix – Catherine Drury – Raising the Stone – The Treasure Box – The Kiss – Lost Love – Fox’s Dingle – The Gnat – The Patchwork Bonnet – Kit Logan and Lady Helen – Down – Saul of Tarsus – Storm: At the Farm Window – Black Horse Lane – Return – Incubus – The Hills of May – The Coronation Murder
Notes: The style of the dust-jacket is the same as that of Country Sentiment, A5a.
Folcroft Library Editions issued a photographic reprint of this book in 1973.
A6b. First American edition (1921):
THE PIER-GLASS | BY | ROBERT GRAVES | [publisher’s emblem] | NEW YORK | ALFRED · A · KNOPF | 1921
Collation: [1] – [4]8, 32 leaves.
p.[1] THE PIER-GLASS; p.[2] list of books by Graves; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] copyright and printing notices; p.[5] TO | NANCY NICHOLSON; p.[6] blank; p.[7] NOTE; p.[8] blank; p.[9] CONTENTS; p.[10] blank; pp.11–63 text; p.[64] blank.
15.1 × 11.3 cm. Bulk: 0.6/1.0 cm. White wove paper; top edges only trimmed and stained green. White wove endpapers. Bound in orange boards with green label printed in black running from front to back across spine; on front and back: [rule] | THE PIER-GLASS | POEMS BY | ROBERT GRAVES | [rule]; on spine: [rule] | The | Pier- | Glass | by | Robert | Graves | 1921 | [rule].
Price: $1.25. Number of copies undisclosed. Published in September 1921 in green dust-jacket printed in black.
Notes: Ellsworth Mason reports his copy, now at the University of Tulsa Library, as measuring 15.6 × 12.1 cm. In addition, Mason records a variant state which differs as follows: 15.3 × 11.8 cm. Bulk: 0.7/1.1 cm. All edges trimmed; cream wove endpapers. Bound in green cloth with chartreuse label running from front to back across spine, lettered as above. Published in a green dust-jacket printed in black.